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Drought Tightens Its Grip On Morocco
August 12th, 2022
Via Al Monitor, an article on Morocco’s drought: Mohamed gave up farming because of successive droughts that have hit his previously fertile but isolated village in Morocco and because he just couldn’t bear it any longer. “To see villagers rush to public fountains in the morning or to a neighbour to get water makes you […]
Read more »Drought Hits Germany’s Rhine River: ’30cm of Water Left’
August 12th, 2022
Via the BBC, a report on the drought affecting the Rhine River: As Europe lives through a long, hot summer, one of the continent’s major rivers is getting drier – posing major problems for the people and businesses that rely on it. Captain Andre Kimpel casts an experienced, but worried, eye across the river Rhine, […]
Read more »Northern Mexico’s Historic Water Shortage
August 10th, 2022
Via the Washington Post, a look at Northern Mexico’s historic water shortage where a lack of rain has combined with mismanagement to cause one of the worst droughts in the northern half of the country: Water has become a sacred commodity in northern Mexico. Reservoirs have been hitting the bottom of their basins. Taps have been running dry […]
Read more »Severe Drought Turns Up the Heat on Europe’s Economic and Energy Crises
August 10th, 2022
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at the impact that Europe’s drought is having upon Europe’s economic and energy crises: A severe drought is magnifying Europe’s economic risks by disrupting crop yields, energy production and trade flows at a time when the Continent is already facing soaring food and fuel prices, along with a […]
Read more »The End of Snow Threatens to Upend 76 Million American Lives
August 9th, 2022
Via Bloomberg, an article on how the disappearing snowpack is accelerating the historic drought across the Western US, and so far government responses haven’t matched the scale of the problem: The Western US is an empire built on snow. And that snow is vanishing. Since most of the region gets little rain in the summer, even […]
Read more »In Dry California, Salty Water Creeps Into Rivers
August 9th, 2022
Via AP News, a report on another impact of the western U.S. drought: Charlie Hamilton hasn’t irrigated his vineyards with water from the Sacramento River since early May, even though it flows just yards from his crop. Nearby to the south, the industrial Bay Area city of Antioch has supplied its people with water from […]
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