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The Thirsty Dragon: How Floods, Drought, and Extreme Heat Could Test China’s One-Party System
August 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a look at how floods and extreme heat could test China’s one-party system: Two years ago, nearly eight inches of rain poured on the Chinese metropolis Zhengzhou within a single hour during storms that flooded subways and killed nearly 400 people. In a country with centuries of experience tackling river floods, […]
Read more »Water Wars: Cooling the Data Centers
August 10th, 2023
Via International Policy Digest, a report on data centers’ growing use of water: Water. Data centres. The continuous, pressing need to cool the latter, which houses servers to store and process data, with the former, which is becoming ever more precious in the climate crisis. Hardly a good comingling of factors. Like planting cotton in […]
Read more »Israel: Use Water To ‘The Last Drop’
August 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The Frontier Post, a report on Israel’s pioneering use of water ‘to the last drop’ In the scorching summer heat, an Israeli farmer tends to a dripline taking a mix of ground and recycled water to palm trees – an approach honed for decades in the arid country and now drawing wide interest […]
Read more »Saudi Arabia’s Massive Water Network Project
August 10th, 2023
Saudi Arabia is building a 12,000km water transportation and distribution network that’s longer than the Nile River. This massive, desalinated water network will carry 9.4 million cubic meters of water per day, and is like laying a pipe from New York to Beijing:
Read more »Transforming the Economics and Governance of Water
August 10th, 2023
Via The Wire China, commentary on how water-related crises around the world show that current systems are unsuited for a world altered by global warming: The floods, droughts, heatwaves, and fires that are devastating many parts of the world underscore two fundamental facts. First, damage to freshwater supplies is increasingly straining human societies, especially the […]
Read more »What Can Be Done About Mexico’s Water Debt to the U.S.?
August 10th, 2023
Via Rio Grande Guardian, an interesting interview about U.S.-Mexican water relations: The availability of water for Rio Grande Valley residents and farmers has always been a top issue for Jim Darling. The former mayor of McAllen is president of the Rio Grande Regional Water Authority. He always gives updates on the water levels at Falcon […]
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