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The Colorado River: Significantly Decline Due to Climate Change
September 10th, 2023
Via Scripps News, a look at how rising temperatures have sucked more than 10 trillion gallons of water out of the Colorado River Basin between 2000 and 2021: The Colorado River is an artery that pumps millions of gallons of water to tens of millions of people in the Southwestern United States. And as much […]
Read more »Mekong: A Vital Regional River Can Be a Route for U.S. Diplomacy
September 10th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a commentary that U.S. President Biden’s Vietnam deals should center on the Mekong: On Sept. 10, Joe Biden pays his first visit to Vietnam as U.S. president, where he is expected to ink a deal to elevate the U.S.-Vietnam relationship from “comprehensive” to “comprehensive strategic”—the highest level of Vietnam’s diplomatic hierarchy. […]
Read more »Palestinian Water Woes Highlight Dashed Hopes of Oslo Accords
September 10th, 2023
Via Al Monitor, a report on how Palestinian water woes highlight the dashed hopes of the Oslo Accords: Thirty years after the landmark Oslo Accords, Palestinian hopes for statehood seem as remote as ever and popular frustration is rife — nowhere more than over access to water. The Israeli-Palestinian dispute centres on land but also […]
Read more »Water Finance: New Path Forward For Irrigated Agriculture?
September 7th, 2023
Via Farm Progress, an article on water finance which uses innovative financial incentives to balance a farmer’s economic needs with the preservation of their water resources, using a combination of loans, grants, equity, debt and other financial instruments to make water management economically viable: As I write this, I just finished up an article for […]
Read more »Chicago Suburbs, Running Out of Water, Will Tap Lake Michigan
September 7th, 2023
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on a U.S. city in which groundwater is now running dry where water is abundant: A city straddling the Des Plaines River that is less than 30 miles from one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes is an unexpected setting for a water shortage. But that’s the situation […]
Read more »America Should Harvest a Trillion Gallons of Rainwater
September 7th, 2023
Via Time Magazine, an article on the potential of rainwater harvesting: Over the weekend, Burning Man attendees were forced to shelter in place when the usually-parched Black Rock Desert got roughly 3 months’ worth of rain in 24 hours. In August, Tropical Storm Hilary dropped as much rain on some inland areas of Southern California in […]
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