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Water and Conflict: Updates from the Russia-Ukraine War
January 25th, 2023
We are living in a time of water and kinetic conflict in the Ukraine and I would like to highlight this interesting discussion ahead: Russia’s war in Ukraine has devastated the country’s water and sanitation infrastructure. Civilian water supply and treatment have been exposed to collateral damage, wielded as weapons through targeted attacks, and strained […]
Read more »Mississippi River: 24/7 Drought-Driven Dredging No Longer Needed
January 25th, 2023
Via Business Insider, an article on how the 24/7 dredging of the Mississippi River that has been ongoing since summer 2022 may finally be coming to an end: The US Army Corps of Engineers has been dredging the Mississippi River 24/7 since July. Drought along the Mississippi has dropped water levels to lows that haven’t been seen in […]
Read more »Water Wars: The Geopolitics of Resource Conflict in the Middle East
January 24th, 2023
Via Geopolitical Monitor, commentary on the geopolitics of water scarcity in the Middle East: Across the Euphrates lies one of the most precious commodities, not a dark viscous liquid that we formally refer to as Petroleum or a shimmering precious metal such as gold, but rather a translucent substance that is imperative to our lives, […]
Read more »The Mesopotamian Marshes Are Disappearing, Again
January 22nd, 2023
Via Yale’s e360, a look at how Iraq’s Mesopotamian marshes are disappearing as a regional drought enters its fourth year and upstream dams cut off water flows: Three years ago, the vast marshlands of southern Iraq’s Dhi Qar province were flourishing. Fishermen glided in punts across swathes of still water between vast reed beds, while buffalo […]
Read more »What Will ‘Weather Whiplash’ Mean for California?
January 21st, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, insightful commentary on California’s water crisis and challenges ahead: California is built upon the great gamble of irrigation. Left alone, much of the land in the Western United States would be inhospitable to teeming cities. But we’re Americans — we couldn’t let the desert stand in our way. More […]
Read more »Don’t Forget About Water in 2023
January 21st, 2023
Via Geopolitical Futures, an article on water, a finite resource will have plenty of countries on edge in the coming year: On Jan. 16, the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources announced that Beijing invested more than 1 trillion yuan ($148 billion) on water resource management in 2022, a whopping 44 percent increase from the previous year. […]
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