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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 […]
Read more »Refilling U.S. Rivers With Desalinated Water
February 2nd, 2023
Via Casey Handmer, provocative commentary on the potential of refiling U.S. rivers with desalinated water: We need more water than rain can provide: refilling rivers with desalination Why? We believe that water should be unconditionally abundant. In the face of extended droughts, aspiring for greater usage efficiency is not, by itself, a sufficiently robust solution. […]
Read more »Jordan Is Running Out of Water, a Grim Glimpse of the Future
February 2nd, 2023
Via The New York Times, a report on how this one small Middle Eastern nation is already one of the driest countries in the world and rising heat, coupled with a growing population, is making things much worse: Residents of Jordan, one of the driest countries in the world, have long been accustomed to a household […]
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