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Drought In US West: Re-Writing the Story of America’s Drylands
July 16th, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting commentary on the drought in the US west: Harsh and unrelenting. But also transformative? The dry conditions blanketing much of the American West are setting records nearly every week. Lakes Mead and Powell, the country’s largest reservoirs by capacity, dropped to new lows this year. The Great Salt […]
Read more »Mexico Declares Drought Emergency
July 16th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on Mexico’s drought crisis: Mexico has declared a drought emergency to enable authorities to take special measures to guarantee water supplies in hard-hit areas. The steps are designed to deal with the effects of a “severe, extreme or exceptional” drought, the national water authority Conagua said in a statement Tuesday. […]
Read more »Climate Change: Bigger Threat To Pakistan Than Terrorism
July 16th, 2022
Via The Washington Post, commentary on how climate change is a bigger threat to Pakistan than terrorism: I never took climate change seriously until last year, when a mother and her child drowned in flooding just a few streets away from my home in Islamabad. This year the flooding is even worse. At least 150 people, including women […]
Read more »In the Driest Region of the World, Water Offers Peace
July 16th, 2022
Via FoodTank, an article on how – in the driest region of the world – water offers peace: In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, countries use over 80 percent of their water resources in agriculture, according to a U.N. Children’s Fund report. As climate change and migration exacerbate already scarce water supplies, The […]
Read more »Global Water Basins Under Threat
July 13th, 2022
Via Phys.org. a look at new research that shows the most-stressed regions in the world are becoming drier, leading to water governance, economic and social challenges: Global co-occurrence of freshwater stress and storage trends. a Freshwater stress, derived from freshwater withdrawal and streamflow datasets. b Freshwater storage trend per basin. c Combinations of freshwater stress and storage trend per basin, which […]
Read more »Monterrey: ‘Desperate For Water’
July 11th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on the drought affecting Mexico’s industrial powerhouse, Monterrey: Maria Celia Navarro smiles wistfully as she remembers the now-unthinkable luxury of taking a shower in her home before a water shortage struck one of Mexico’s wealthiest cities. Nestled in mountains a few hours’ drive from the US border, industrial powerhouse Monterrey boasts […]
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