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Panama Canal’s Revenue To Shrink By $200 Million Next Year Due To Ongoing Drought
August 7th, 2023
Via Marine Insight, Panama Canal Authority expects revenue to fall by $200M next year due to an ongoing drought: The managers associated with the Panama Canal stated that they expected income to fall after the authorities were compelled to restrict the number of vessels passing via each to 32 owing to inadequate rainfall. Ricaurte Vásquez, […]
Read more »Water-Stressed Iraq Dries up Fish Farms
August 7th, 2023
Via Al Monitor, a report on Iraq’s continued drought crisis: Iraqi villager Omar Ziad gazes at the cracked and barren earth where his fish farm once stood, lost to water conservation efforts during a devastating four-year drought. As the alarming water crisis blamed mostly on climate change drags on, officials see the need for trade-offs […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Climate Change & Water Scarcity Threatens China’s Rice Bowl
August 6th, 2023
Via East Asia Forum, an article on the impact that climate change is having upon China’s agricultural sector: Downpours in late May 2023 in northern China flooded wheat fields, stirring both domestic and international concern about China’s wheat supply and the potential impacts on food security. Chinese officials described the flooding as ‘the most destructive rain event’ for wheat […]
Read more »Can We Desalinate Water without All the Mess?
August 6th, 2023
Via Hakai Magazine, a report on a a new generation of small, modular, mobile, wave-powered devices that is looking to tackle desalination’s biggest problems head-on: In May 2022, California officials unanimously rejected a plan to build a US $1.4-billion desalination plant in Huntington Beach. The plant, the officials said, would produce costly water and possibly […]
Read more »No Water, No Workers, No Chips
August 4th, 2023
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how TSMC and other tech giants need to take climate and water scarcity into account or risk seeing their investments go up in smoke: All roads lead to Phoenix. On the gravy train of greenfield investment riding on the back of Inflation Reduction Act legislative incentives in the United […]
Read more »Minnesota Tribe Sets Enforceable Rules To Safeguard Wild Rice and Water Supply
August 4th, 2023
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at how one Minnesota Tribe has set aside ineffective voluntary pollution prevention practices for mandatory regulation: It’s been centuries since the White Earth Band migrated west across North America, following an ancestral prophecy to go where “food grows on water.” One of seven Ojibwe bands in Minnesota, White […]
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