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Why Parts of America Are In A Water Crisis
October 22nd, 2023
Via ABC News, a report on why parts of America are ‘certainly in a water crisis’ and what can be done about it: As pollution, engineering, population growth and climate change pose challenges to freshwater quality and quantity in America, the safety and amount of water in parts of the U.S. is in question. Environmental […]
Read more »Tigris–Euphrates Basin States Must Come Together To Address Water Crisis
October 18th, 2023
Via ASPI’s The Strategist, a look at the need for Tigris–Euphrates basin states to come together to address the water crisis: In a dramatic display of collective frustration, the streets of Baghdad recently became a theatre of dissent as around 300 Iraqis took to Nisour Square to protest acute water shortages. The demonstrations were held on 18 […]
Read more »How An Ancient Society in the Sahara Desert Rose and Fell with Groundwater
October 17th, 2023
Via Terra Daily, an article on how an ancient society in the Sahara Desert rose and fell with groundwater: With its low quantities of rain and soaring high temperatures, the Sahara Desert is often regarded as one of the most extreme and least habitable environments on Earth. While the Sahara was periodically much greener in […]
Read more »A Severe Drought Pushes an Imperiled Amazon to the Brink
October 17th, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, a sobering report on the Amazon – a rainforest that holds a fifth of the world’s fresh water, but deforestation, dwindling rain and unrelenting heat are sucking it dry: The planet’s biggest freshwater tank is in trouble. The Amazon rainforest, where a fifth of the world’s freshwater flows, is reeling from […]
Read more »To Tackle Groundwater Overuse, Nevada takes New Approach: Buying Back Farmers’ Rights
October 17th, 2023
Via The Nevada Independent, a report on Nevada’s plans to issue $25 million in grants to retire groundwater rights in places where use exceeds what is sustainable: The Pershing County Water Conservation District’s headquarters in Lovelock sits off Interstate 80 a few miles before the Humboldt River disappears into a desert sink. Farmers here have […]
Read more »WWF: The ‘High Cost of Cheap Water’
October 16th, 2023
Courtesy of WWF, a new report with the first annual estimate of economic value of water and freshwater ecosystems, noting that the water crisis threatens US$58 trillion in economic value, food security and sustainability: First ever annual estimate of economic value of water and freshwater ecosystems is US$58 trillion – equivalent to 60% of global […]
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