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Demand For Water Top Threat To Food Security In The Future
July 20th, 2022
Via New Food Magazine, an article on how demand for water top threat to food security in the future: Increased demand for water will be the number one threat to food security in the next 20 years, followed closely by heat waves, droughts, income inequality and political instability, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder-led […]
Read more »Nearly Half of EU Territory ‘At Risk’ of Drought
July 20th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a sobering report that nearly half of EU territory is ‘at risk’ of drought: Researchers at the European Commission warned on Monday that nearly half of the EU’s territory is currently at risk of drought, as southwest Europe wilted under a punishing heatwave. In a report for July, the European Commission’s Joint […]
Read more »Iran Arrests Several After Protests At Drying Lake
July 18th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on protests at Iran’s drying Lake Urmia: Iranian police have arrested several people for disturbing security after they protested the drying up of a lake once regarded as the Middle East’s largest, official media said Sunday. Lake Urmia, in the mountains of northwest Iran, began shrinking in 1995 due to […]
Read more »Iraq Asks Turkey To Release More Water
July 18th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on Iraq’s request to Turkey to release more water: Iraq on Saturday asked Ankara to increase the flow of water downstream along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, as both countries face droughts and tensions over resource management. Baghdad regularly complains that dams constructed in neighbouring countries impact its river levels. Water […]
Read more »New Afghan Dams Aim To Ease Water Crisis
July 17th, 2022
Via Ariana News, a report on three new dams to be built in Kandahar to ease the province’s water shortage crisis: Three new dams are being built in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar in a bid to ease an acute water shortage after years of drought. China’s Xinhua News Agency reported the dams are […]
Read more »Drought In US West: Re-Writing the Story of America’s Drylands
July 16th, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting commentary on the drought in the US west: Harsh and unrelenting. But also transformative? The dry conditions blanketing much of the American West are setting records nearly every week. Lakes Mead and Powell, the country’s largest reservoirs by capacity, dropped to new lows this year. The Great Salt […]
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