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How Water Strategizing is Remaking the Middle East
November 1st, 2022
Via The Wilson Center, a new report on how water strategizing is remaking the Middle East: For years, many Middle Eastern states have engaged in high-stakes, if generally haphazard, forms of water strategizing. Intent on guaranteeing their water futures amid fluctuations in access—and periodic scarcity, these countries have adopted unique and varyingly successful approaches to […]
Read more »Salton Sea: A ‘Bargaining Chip’ In Fight For Colorado River Water
November 1st, 2022
Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on how California’s Salton Sea is being used as a bargaining chip in the fight for Colorado River water: As water tensions heighten, Arizona and California are fighting over the Colorado River. And people who live around Southern California’s Salton Sea may bear some of the repercussions. The Salton Sea is California’s […]
Read more »Can Pricing Groundwater Help Solve California’s Water Problems?
November 1st, 2022
Via the Bay Area’s Local News, commentary on the potential that pricing groundwater may offer to solve California’s water problems: In the face of of its worst drought in centuries, California is finally getting around to regulating its groundwater use. As an agricultural economist who studies water regulation in California, I think this is a unique […]
Read more »Thousands Protest French Agro-Industry Water ‘Grab’
November 1st, 2022
Via Seed Daily, an article on clashes arising as thousands protest French agro-industry water ‘grab’: Thousands of demonstrators defied an official ban to march on Saturday against the deployment of new water storage infrastructure for agricultural irrigation in western France, some clashing with police. Clashes between paramilitary gendarmes and demonstrators erupted with Interior Minister Gerald […]
Read more »One City Paid $1.1M To Keep Faucets Running Through March
November 1st, 2022
Via CNN, a look at how one California city is trying to survive the drought: Miles of brittle, uprooted almond trees lay dead on their sides on parched farmland in Coalinga, California, as an intensifying drought, new restrictions and skyrocketing water prices are forcing farmers to sacrifice their crops. Roadside signs warn against watering front lawns as residents […]
Read more »Russia Accused Of Sabotaging Ukraine Water Pipe To Mykolaiv
October 31st, 2022
Courtesy of BBC, an article on accusations that Russia intentionally sabotaged water supply infrastructure in Ukraine: For six months, homes in Ukraine’s southern coastal city of Mykolaiv have been without clean drinking water. Military and UN experts have told a BBC investigation they believe Russian forces deliberately cut off the water supply last April. Satellite […]
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