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Pakistan’s Water Crisis
May 24th, 2022
Via Frontier Post, an article on Pakistan’s water crisis: Depleting surface and ground water resource has rung alarm bells for the policy makers with country touching the scarcity bench mark due to per capita water availability dwindling six times since independence. Absence of sufficient water storages, rising temperature and rampant wastage of irrigation water was […]
Read more »Key Iraq Irrigation Reservoir Close To Drying Out
May 24th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on Iraq’s drought: Iraq’s Lake Hamrin, a once-vast reservoir northeast of Baghdad that is the sole source of water for irrigation across Diyala province, has nearly dried out, a senior official said Friday. Successive years of low rainfall and a sharp reduction in the flow of water down the Sirwan […]
Read more »Iran: Plans To Pursue Water Dispute With Afghanistan Via Legal Channels
May 22nd, 2022
Via the Iran Project, an article on Iran’s plans to to pursue the its international water dispute with Afghanistan through legal channels: Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says the country will pursue its rights to water supply from the Hirmand River through legal channels amid a longstanding water dispute with neighboring Afghanistan. Speaking to IRNA […]
Read more »With Severe Drought, Urgent Need To Rework Colorado River Compact
May 20th, 2022
Via the LA Times, an article on the need to rework the Colorado River compact: One hundred years after a landmark agreement divided the waters of the Colorado River among Western states, the pact is now showing its age as a hotter and drier climate has shrunk the river. The flow of the Colorado has […]
Read more »50 Years of Protecting and Restoring the Great Lakes
May 19th, 2022
Via The Conversation, a look at 50 years of US-Canada joint efforts to protect and restore the Great Lakes: The Great Lakes cover nearly 95,000 square miles (250,000 square kilometers) and hold over 20% of Earth’s surface fresh water. More than 30 million people in the U.S. and Canada rely on them for drinking water. The lakes support a multibillion-dollar maritime economy, […]
Read more »Grim Drought Outlook for Western U.S. As Climate Change Brings Hotter, Thirstier Atmosphere
May 19th, 2022
Via The Conversation, a report on the grim 2022 drought outlook for Western US as climate change brings a hotter, thirstier atmosphere: Much of the western U.S. has been in the grip of an unrelenting drought since early 2020. The dryness has coincided with record-breaking wildfires, intense and long-lasting heat waves, low stream flows and dwindling water supplies in reservoirs that millions of […]
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