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Where The Colorado River Crisis Is Hitting Home
September 22nd, 2022
Via NPR, a look at where the Colorado River crisis is hitting home: These days it can feel almost cliche to throw around the word Dystopian. But it’s hard not to use it while standing on the narrow road crossing the Hoover Dam as tourists gawk at the hulking structure’s exposed columns that for decades […]
Read more »Sinaloa Cartel Is Controlling Water in Drought-Stricken Mexico
September 21st, 2022
Via Vice, an article on how Mexican cartels – as water becomes more scarce and more valuable – have decided to focus on the control and distribution of water: Deep inside a canyon in the mountains of Chihuahua, Mexico—a place that’s accessible only by mule or on foot—locals haven’t seen this river full for over […]
Read more »Colorado River Drying up — But Basin States Have ‘No Plan’ On How To Cut Water Use
September 20th, 2022
Via Colorado Public Radio, commentary on the Colorado River crisis: One month after states missed a federal deadline to propose ways to drastically cut their use of water supplied by the Colorado River, water managers who met for a seminar in Grand Junction said they still didn’t have comprehensive solutions ready to help bolster the imperiled river […]
Read more »Is 2022 The Driest Year Recorded?
September 18th, 2022
Via BBC, a look at the world’s drought: Europe and parts of China have experienced extreme temperatures this summer, dry conditions in Africa have put millions at risk of starvation, and the American West continues to see a persistent lack of rainfall. Scientists say warmer and drier seasons are likely to become the norm, but […]
Read more »From Asia to Africa: Tentacles of Oil Palm Plantations are Squeezing Communities Dry
September 17th, 2022
Via the World Rainforest Movement, an article on how oil palm plantations are squeezing communities dry: There are no other commodity crops that have grown faster globally in the last decade than palm oil. Vegetable oil production increased 118 per cent in the last ten years alone, the majority of it is driven by the […]
Read more »Are ‘Water Wars’ Coming to Asia?
September 17th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, a look at how climate change-induced water loss in the Tibetan Plateau further challenges water security from Central to Southeast Asia: A recently published study by a team of scientists from the University of Texas in Austin, Penn State, and Tsinghua University in Nature climate change journal found that terrestrial water storage (TWS) in the Qinghai-Tibet […]
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