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The Parched Tiger: 80% Water Loss Projected In Indus Basin Due To Climate Change
August 23rd, 2022
Via The New Indian Express, an article on the staggering 80 per cent water loss projected in the Indus basin by mid-century due to climate change: An irreversible decline in freshwater storage projected in parts of Asia due to climate change could impact 2 billion people living downstream of the Tibetan Plateau as it could pose […]
Read more »World’s Rivers Drying Up From Extreme Weather
August 21st, 2022
Courtesy of CNN, a look at how the world’s rivers are drying up from extreme weather from space: To be stuck “up a river without a paddle” is an expression for a sticky situation you just can’t get out of. But if that river happens to be in the northern hemisphere this summer, it’s likely […]
Read more »Record River Lows Across China, US and Europe Sap Economies
August 20th, 2022
Courtesy of the Financial Times, an article on the economic impact that drought is having upon China, U.S., and Europe: Factories grinding to a halt, crops devastated, cargo ships forced to carry smaller loads and millions facing a risk of blackouts — these are just some of the drastic consequences of record low river levels […]
Read more »Less Water, More People: A Growing Challenge for the Driest U.S. Counties
August 20th, 2022
Via the Economic Innovation Group, a look at the challenge presented by less water and more people in the driest counties in the United States: With reservoirs in the southwestern United States at record-low levels and the effects of prolonged drought conditions being felt from agriculture to development, one of the most far-reaching questions over the coming […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Drought Shrinks China’s Largest Freshwater Lake By 75%
August 19th, 2022
Via CGTN, an article on the impact of drought on China’s largest freshwater lake by 75%: Drought conditions triggered by sustained hot weather and low precipitation in east China’s Jiangxi Province have reduced the country’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang, by 75 percent, authorities said on Thursday. As of 10 a.m. Thursday, the total area […]
Read more »A Next-Level Water Crisis: Colorado River Basin Faces Tier 2 Restrictions
August 18th, 2022
Via Yale Climate Connections, a report on the unprecedented move to Tier 2 restrictions as southwestern states wrangle over how to cut water use: The grinding megadrought that’s plagued the southwestern United States since 2000 plunged to a new level of seriousness on Tuesday, August 16, as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced that the first-ever […]
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