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Hydro Dams Are Struggling to Handle the World’s Intensifying Weather
October 14th, 2023
Via Wired, a look at how climate change is robbing some hydro dams of water while oversupplying others—forcing managers to employ new forecasting technology and clever strategies to capitalize on what they have: IT’S BEEN ONE of the wettest years in California since records began. From October 2022 to March 2023, the state was blasted by 31 atmospheric […]
Read more »WMO 2022 Report: “Hydrological Cycle Out of Balance, Affecting Groundwater Levels”
October 14th, 2023
Via International Groundwater Resources Assessment Center, a new report on showing how the “hydrological cycle is out of balance, affecting groundwater levels”: Today, WMO launched its State of Global Water Resources 2022 report. It is the most comprehensive overview to date, not just because the number of countries included has doubled, but also because it is […]
Read more »A Dam Waste In the Age of Megadrought
October 14th, 2023
Via TruthDig, commentary on how Colorado’s Gross Dam illustrates the folly of impounding water to feed unsustainable economic and population growth in the American West: Mining explosions and summertime thunder can sound remarkably similar. In my rural Colorado neighborhood, 10 miles southwest of Boulder, the smaller blasts that clear ground for the expansion of Gross Dam […]
Read more »The Colorado River Wars Are Based on Bad Math
October 12th, 2023
Via Mother Jones, a look at how faulty assumptions have brought the Colorado “Law of the River” to a breaking point: California and Arizona are currently fighting each other over water from the Colorado River. But this isn’t new—it’s actually been going on for over 100 years. At one point, the states literally went to war about […]
Read more »Persistent Drought Strains Morocco’s Economic Prospects
October 12th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on the impact of drought on Morocco’s economy: On his land in a mountainous area in the region of Chefchaouen, in northern Morocco, Khaled Kouskou, a business consultant turned farmer, complains that his efforts to cultivate 10 hectares owned by his family are being thwarted by poor rains. […]
Read more »2.4 BCM of Water to Be Transferred from Sea of Oman to Iran’s Provinces
October 11th, 2023
Via Tasnim News, a report on Iran’s plan to transfer 2.4 billion cubic meters of water from the Sea of Oman to the three provinces of Sistan and Balouchestan, South Khorasan and Khorasan Razavi: Speaking in a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, chaired by President Ebrahim Raisi, Abbas Aliabadi submitted a comprehensive report on the implementation of the […]
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