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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 […]
Read more »Hard Choices Ahead For Colorado River
August 9th, 2022
Via Writers on the Range, commentary on the challenges facing the Colorado River: The seven Colorado River states – Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming – face a daunting mid-August deadline. The federal government has asked them to come up with a plan to reduce their combined water usage from the Colorado […]
Read more »Water Levels Rise In South As North Korea Opens Dam Floodgates Without Warning
August 9th, 2022
Via NK News, a report on rising water levels in South Korea as the North opens dam floodgates without warning: North Korea opened dam floodgates along the Imjin River near the inter-Korean border this week, according to Seoul’s unification ministry, raising the risk of further inundation in the South as monsoon rains lash the peninsula. […]
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