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Turf Wars: Las Vegas Needs Water, But Won’t Find It In Lawns
August 16th, 2023
Via ProPublica, a report on the potential and limitations of Las Vegas’ efforts to save water by replacing lawns: As millions of newcomers have flocked to the Las Vegas Valley over the past 50 years, every level of government in the nation’s driest state has worked to ensure that water shortages don’t stop the growth. […]
Read more »Mexico’s Water Stress
August 16th, 2023
Via Cronica National, commentary on Mexico’s water scarcity challenge, a problem partially resulting from the overexploitation of aquifers, distribution and processing of water: “The scarcity of water in the country due to water stress is the result of a combination of factors; On the one hand, the overexploitation of the aquifers, the high demand for the […]
Read more »As Armenian Fish Farming Expands, a Pristine Aquifer Is Drying Up
August 16th, 2023
Via Yale e360, an article on the impact that aquaculture has had upon Armenia’s Ararat Valley, where the heightened use of water, combined with a warming climate and increased drought, has led to groundwater reserves shrinking by two-thirds, once-bountiful farms withering, and wells going dry: On an overcast morning this past spring, Gegham Muradyan searches […]
Read more »Thirsty For Its Next Big Investment Opportunity, Wall Street Looks At The West’s Vanishing Water
August 15th, 2023
Via CNN, a report on growing investment interest in the U.S. West’s vanishing water: Situated in the Sonoran Desert near the Arizona-California border is the tiny rural town of Cibola – home to roughly 300 people, depending on the season. Life here depends almost entirely on the Colorado River, which nourishes thirsty crops like cotton and alfalfa, […]
Read more »How Much Water Is Left In The Colorado River?
August 15th, 2023
Via CNN, a look at efforts to determine how much water is left in the Colorado River: Fresh off a phenomenal winter snowpack, water levels on the Colorado River are going up for the first time in years. As a result, federal officials will announce this week that they are easing water restrictions in the Southwest […]
Read more »Iran Warns of Caspian Sea’s Shrinking Coastline
August 15th, 2023
Via Tasnim News, a report on climate change’s impact on the Caspian Sea: Iran’s mission to the UN office in Geneva warned that the Caspian Sea’s water levels have been dropping according to satellite images provided by the Iranian Space Agency. In a post on X, the Permanent Mission of Iran to the United Nations […]
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