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Once Declared “Drought-Proof”, Climate Change Is Pushing El Paso To Its Limits
June 1st, 2022
Via MIT Technology Review, a report on how El Paso spent decades preparing for drought, but now climate change is forcing the city to ask just how far adaptation can go: About 20 miles outside El Paso, Texas, on a warm afternoon just before the fall harvest, Ramon Tirres Jr. turns his truck between two fields […]
Read more »Where Water Stress Will Be Highest By 2040
June 1st, 2022
Via Statista, a look at the global projected ratio of water withdrawals to water supply (water stress level) in 2040. March 22 marks the UN’s World Water Day, which “celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2 billion people currently living without access to safe water.” According to the UN: “When a territory withdraws 25 […]
Read more »Senegal Launches Contested Water Desalination Scheme
June 1st, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on Senegal’s controversial desalination plan: Senegal has kicked off work to build the country’s first water desalination plant, a scheme contested by critics as costly and an environmental peril. President Macky Sall on Tuesday ceremonially launched work to build a plant in Dakar’s Mamelles district aimed at easing the capital’s […]
Read more »South Asia ‘Sorely Needs Transboundary River Accord’
June 1st, 2022
Via SciDevNet, an article on South Asia’s need for a transboundary river accord: Countries around the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin lose over US$14.2 billion annually from lack of cooperation in sharing the waters of these rivers, with little prospect of accord in the foreseeable future, according to new analysis. “A lack of collaborative arrangements and unilateral exploitation […]
Read more »‘Flash Droughts’ U.S. Midwest’s Next Big Climate Threat
May 26th, 2022
Via Grist, an article on ‘flash droughts’, potentially the Midwest’s next big climate threat: September in Oklahoma is typically a rainy season, when farmers take advantage of the state’s third-wettest month to plant winter wheat. But last year, many were caught off guard by abnormally dry weather that descended without warning. In the span of […]
Read more »Iconic Iran River Threatened By Droughts, Diversions
May 25th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on an iconic Iranian river under threat: The famed river bridges of the Iranian city of Isfahan are a beloved tourist draw — but much of the time their stone arches span just sand and rocks, not water. Drought and upstream water diversions have seen the Zayandeh Rood, “fertile river” […]
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