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In America’s Fastest-Growing Metro, A Rising Fear Water Will Run Out
August 16th, 2022
Via the Washington Post, an article on St. George, Utah – America’s fastest-growing metro – where there is a rising fear that water will run out: A century after her grandfather arrived to eke a living out of the hot, red dirt here, Susan Savage still structures her life around the groundwater. Twice daily, she checks […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Why Monsoon Season Will Not Solve India’s Water Crisis
August 16th, 2022
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at why monsoon season will not solve India’s water crisis: After a scorching summer, most parts of India are enjoying a drenching from monsoons that arrived in late May. But the downpours will provide only limited relief. Several eastern and northern states had the driest July on record; the India Meteorological […]
Read more »Steep Water Cuts Coming For U.S. Southwest
August 16th, 2022
Via CNN, an article on the steep water cuts are coming for the Southwest as Colorado River shrinks and Lake Mead’s level plummets: An extraordinary drought in the West is drying up the Colorado River and draining the nation’s largest reservoirs — Lake Mead and Lake Powell. And amid the overuse of the river and the aridification of the region, the federal government […]
Read more »In Los Angeles, the Grass Isn’t Always Greener This Year
August 15th, 2022
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on how Southern California residents are beginning to accept that lush lawns are unsustainable when reservoirs and rivers run low in a drought era: Erin Brockovich made her name decades ago as an environmental activist who exposed corporate wrongdoing that polluted drinking water. So she felt a bit defensive when a television […]
Read more »Ethiopia Completes Third Filling Of Its Mega-Dam Reservoir On The Blue Nile
August 14th, 2022
Via Al Jazeera, an article on Ethiopia’s completion of the third filling of Blue Nile mega-dam reservoir: Ethiopia has completed the third filling of its mega-dam reservoir on the Blue Nile, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced, a development that could raise further tensions with downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan. The announcement on Friday comes a day after […]
Read more »Historic Drought Threatens to Cripple European Trade
August 13th, 2022
Via Bloomberg, a report on how – from the Rhine to the Danube – Europe’s waterways are failing at the worst possible moment as the climate crisis worsens: In the midst of an arid summer that set heat records across Europe, the continent’s rivers are evaporating. The Rhine — a pillar of the German, Dutch and […]
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