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The Battle For The Colorado River Is A Water Warning To Us All
February 5th, 2023
Via The Financial Times, commentary on the battle over the Colorado River: This week, a nasty fight has exploded on the US political stage. This is not about congressional votes or presidential candidates. Instead, it revolves around something so mundane that it is often ignored: water. On Tuesday, the seven states that use the Colorado […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India Escalates Water Conflict With Pakistan
February 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report on how India’s notice for the Indus Water Treaty’s modification comes in the wake of a series of hydroelectric projects planned on the Indus valley rivers in India: On January 25, two days before a Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague started its hearing on the dispute over the Indus Water […]
Read more »Confronting California’s Water Crisis
February 3rd, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, commentary on how California state officials should protect water as a public resource and rein in corporate water abusers to deal with its increasingly uncertain water future: Californians are still grappling with the aftermath of powerful storms that triggered dangerous flooding and mudslides across the state, even as the West’s unprecedented […]
Read more »Israel Refills the Sea of Galilee, Supplying Jordan On The Way
February 3rd, 2023
Via Reuters, an article on Israel’s efforts to refill the Sea of Galilee: When the floodgates are open, a torrent of water gushes into a dry river bed and races to the shore of the Sea of Galilee, a biblical lake in northern Israel that was being lost to drought and the growing population around […]
Read more »The Disastrous Colonial Redesign of Pakistan’s Rivers
February 3rd, 2023
Via YouTube, a video analysis of how British engineering of water infrastructure along the Indus River and its tributaries – notably a series of perennial canals, dam-like structures called barrages, and embankments built to extract as much water from the Indus as possible and convert much of Pakistan’s arid landscape into farmland – exacerbated the destruction […]
Read more »California Submits River Colorado River Water Plan
February 2nd, 2023
Via Terra Daily, a report that California has submitted a rival Colorado River water plan: California has submitted a rival plan for use of the Colorado River, after six other states accused it of refusing to cooperate in the battle over usage of a dwindling major US watercourse.Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming […]
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