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‘The US Dammed Us Up’: Drought’s Threat To Navajo Ties To Ancestral Lands
October 10th, 2022
Via The Guardian, a report on how drought is impacting U.S. tribal lands: Candice Mendez grew up on the Navajo reservation in a home that lacked running water and electricity. There was no phone service and few paved roads. A supermarket was miles away. But to Mendez, now 39, it felt like a time of […]
Read more »2 Months of Water Remaining: A California City Searches for Water
October 10th, 2022
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on one California city’s water crisis as its supply is expected to run out in two months: The residents of this sun-scorched city feel California’s endless drought when the dust lifts off the brown hills and flings grit into their living rooms. They see it when they drive […]
Read more »Cambodia’s Elites Swallow Up Phnom Penh’s Lakes
October 7th, 2022
Courtesy of Mongabay, a report on how Cambodia’s lakes are being quickly filled in and sold as real estate projects: Lakes in Phnom Penh are fast being filled in and parceled off as prime real estate to wealthy and politically connected individuals. Families who have for generations fished and practiced aquaculture on the lakes and […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Climate Change Compounding India’s Water Crisis
October 7th, 2022
Via MIT Technology Review, a look at how droughts and floods have pushed the nation’s leaky, polluted, and half-done water systems to the brink: Severe droughts have drained rivers, reservoirs, and aquifers across vast parts of India in recent years, pushing the nation’s leaky, polluted water systems to the brink. More than 600 million Indians […]
Read more »U.S. Southwest Water Problem About ‘People and Politics’
October 6th, 2022
Via Grand Junction Sentinel, commentary on the relationship between water and politics: The most important long-term issue for Colorado today is the same as it was 120 years ago… water. In 2010, Smithsonian Magazine published an article titled, “The Colorado River Runs Dry.” The article included a quotation from Brad Udall of Colorado State University, […]
Read more »Ogallala Aquifer: The Wells Dried Up This Year
October 5th, 2022
Via KTIC’s Rural Radio, a report on the dire impact the summer’s drought had on the Ogallala Aquifer: A post on social media from Haskell County, Kansas, pointed to a stark example of the impact of extreme drought and high crop irrigation demand in the 2022 year. “(The) well is basically out of water now. Been […]
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