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Water Security Woes in Mongolia’s Capital
October 26th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a look at how the pressures of rapid population growth, mismanagement, and climate change are jeopardizing Ulaanbaatar’s water supply: What would a world without clean freshwater water look like? In a context of enhanced climate change, rapid urbanization and increased water pollution, concerns around water security have come to the forefront of […]
Read more »King of the Dammed: Turkey’s Landscape Changing For The Worse
October 25th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy a look at how Turkish President Erdogan’s mega-infrastructure projects are enriching construction companies while reshaping his country’s waterscape for the worse: On a humid midsummer morning, the fishermen of Tekelioglu, a village in western Turkey, gathered to talk about how their lake disappeared. The decline began a decade ago, they agreed, […]
Read more »Third Round GERD Talks Conclude Without Outcome
October 25th, 2023
Via Addis Standard, a report on the third round GERD talks which recently conclude in Cairo without an outcome: The third round of talks regarding the rules and guidelines for the initial filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) concluded on 24 October in Cairo, Egypt. The talks lasted for two days […]
Read more »California’s Epic Rain Year Boosted Groundwater Levels, But Not Enough To Recoup Losses
October 25th, 2023
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, a report that California’s epic rain year boosted groundwater levels, but not enough to recoup losses: California’s extraordinarily wet year brought the state vast quantities of water that have soaked into the ground and given a substantial boost to the state’s groundwater supplies, but not nearly enough to reverse […]
Read more »Does the Paper Industry Need To Cut Its Water Usage?
October 25th, 2023
In Paso de Los Toros, Uruguay, a new paper mill operated by Finnish ownership is drawing around 129 million liters of water per day from a river estuary, BBC News reports. The new facility cements Uruguay as one of the world’s leading producers in the pulp and paper sector, an industry that has drawn scrutiny from […]
Read more »Inside Poland Spring’s Hidden Attack on Water Rules It Didn’t Like
October 25th, 2023
A new report from the New York Times details the successful efforts of BlueTriton, the company that owns Poland Spring bottled water, to stymie groundwater protections in Maine: When Maine lawmakers tried to rein in large-scale access to the state’s freshwater this year, the effort initially gained momentum. The state had just emerged from drought, and […]
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