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Bangladesh’s Water Crisis and the Problem of a ‘Green’ Solution
May 9th, 2023
Via The Frontier Post, commentary on Bangladesh’s water crisis: As the world scrambles to address climate change and build resilience to prepare communities for its destructive impacts, nature-based solutions are being presented as a panacea. These projects, which leverage nature and natural processes to help alleviate the effects of climate change and harmful human activity, […]
Read more »Arizona Is Coming up With New Sources of Water — if Cities Can Afford Them
May 7th, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how Phoenix-area communities plan to spend millions to find new water supplies to help the region continue to grow amidst a continuing drought: Sixty miles west of Phoenix along the I-10 freeway to the California border lies what many Valley cities with limited water supplies and investment companies […]
Read more »Afghanistan Seeks to Control Its Own Water Destiny
May 6th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a look at how the Taliban’s plan to upgrade Afghanistan’s water infrastructure is raising tensions with neighboring countries: Facing acute drought conditions, the Taliban government is undertaking an ambitious program to upgrade its water infrastructure. However, the program has elevated tensions with the countries surrounding Afghanistan. Kabul lacks the technical ability to […]
Read more »Drought-Stricken Spain Is Running Dry
May 5th, 2023
Via CNN, a report on Spain’s drought: Standing in his field of stunted, withered maize, Santi Caudevilla is very worried. “If the weather does not change it will be zero. Nothing is going to be harvested,” he said. Caudevilla, who grows maize, sorghum and other crops in Gimenells in Catalonia, has been hit hard by the severe drought which […]
Read more »The Water Brokers
May 4th, 2023
Courtesy of GRIST, a look at a small Nevada company which spent decades buying water and now – as the West dries up – is cashing out: For the first two decades of the 21st century, not even a once-in-a-millennium drought could deter real estate developers from building vast suburban tracts on the wild edges […]
Read more »Potential Solutions for Vietnam’s Water Scarce Delta
May 2nd, 2023
Via East Asia Forum, a look at potential solutions for the water-scarce Mekong Delta: The 21st century has seen a rapid increase in the number of countries in the Global South experiencing water scarcity. In the Mekong region, environment–development conflicts driven by climate change and upstream hydropower development jeopardise water supply in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD). […]
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