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‘Water Lords’ Extort Drought-Stricken Farmers in Bangladesh
January 21st, 2023
Via Third Pole, a look at how tubewell owners control the lives of millions of marginal farmers in Bangladesh’s northwestern districts with devastating impact on people across the Barind Tract: In late August 2022, Fulu Mia was confronted with a stark choice: whether to spend the little money he had on treating his wife’s medical […]
Read more »Desalination Could Give The Middle East Water Without Damaging Marine Life – If Managed Carefully
January 19th, 2023
Via The Conversation, commentary on the role desalination can play in addressing Middle Eastern water scarcity: More than 2 billion people live in “water stressed” countries. These are territories where more than 25% of the available freshwater resources are withdrawn for human use each year. Desalination – the process of removing salt from seawater – is increasingly being used […]
Read more »Arizona: Developers Don’t Have Enough Groundwater To Build
January 19th, 2023
Via CNBC, an article on Arizonan developer who don’t have enough groundwater to build in the desert west of Phoenix: Developers planning to build homes in the desert west of Phoenix don’t have enough groundwater supplies to move forward with their plans, a state modeling report found. Plans to construct homes for people located west of […]
Read more »Arizona’s Dry Wells Not Saudi Arabia’s Fault
January 19th, 2023
Via Green Prophet, commentary on private companies pumping Arizona’s groundwater: If you are following American media, Arizona’s water is running worryingly low. You might think it’s a local story but it’s really your story too. It’s one about local resources and who should own them. In dry Arizona, residents are cutting back, collecting rainwater in buckets […]
Read more »Warning About Aquifer’s Decline Sets Up Big Fight In Kansas
January 19th, 2023
Via WIBW, a report on the Ogalla Aquifer and looming battles over its use: Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the state’s western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk the economic collapse of […]
Read more »Water Is a Terrible Thing for California to Waste
January 19th, 2023
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, commentary on the lack of water storage facilities in California, which has meant that much of the winter rain has simply gone down the drain: California’s political leaders are obsessed with climate, so why don’t they prepare for droughts or deluges? The atmospheric rivers that are sweeping the parched […]
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