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Colorado River Crisis: How Did The Nation’s Two Largest Reservoirs Nearly Go Dry?
November 23rd, 2023
Via The Colorado Sun, a look at how historic drought, poor planning, competing political agendas and climate-change denial contributed to dangerously low levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell, experts say: During the drought-choked summer of 2021, Colorado’s largest reservoir, Blue Mesa, was low, its shoreline exposed and dusty like a dirty white collar. The […]
Read more »Fresh Water: Hidden Challenge, and Opportunity, For Global Supply Chains
November 23rd, 2023
Via The Interest, commentary on how and why fresh water is a hidden challenge, and opportunity, for global supply chains: Reports of lengthy shipping delays for vessels traveling through the Panama Canal this year have highlighted the critical but often overlooked role that fresh water plays across global supply chains. Drier than normal conditions in Panama, brought on […]
Read more »In A Thirsty World, ‘Luxury Water’ Becomes Fashionable Among The Elite
November 22nd, 2023
Courtesy of AP News, a look at how – as more of the world thirsts – luxury water is becoming fashionable among the elite: Monsoon rains have finally passed and floods blocking the lone dirt road have retreated enough for a small truck to climb these Himalayan foothills to a gurgling spring. It spews water […]
Read more »Drought Worsens In Spain’s Catalonia
November 22nd, 2023
Via Terra Daily, an article on Spain’s drought crisis: A long drought in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region is getting worse and could make it necessary to bring fresh water to Barcelona by boat, local officials said Tuesday. Three years without significant rain have left reservoirs in the Mediterranean region at just 19 percent capacity, compared […]
Read more »Jordan Will Not Sign Water-for-Energy Deal With Israel
November 22nd, 2023
Via the Jordan Times, a report that Jordan will will not sign water-for-energy deal with Israel in light of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Thursday that Jordan will not sign a water-for-energy deal with Israel in light of the ongoing war on the […]
Read more »What Does 1.5°C Mean For Water?
November 21st, 2023
Via China Water Risk, commentary on what unprecedented temperatures mean for extreme events, melting ice & sea level rise, via an interview with WMO Director of Hydrology & Cryosphere, Dr. Uhlenbrook: This year we have seen extreme events devastate populations, cause hundreds of millions of dollars of economic losses as well as trigger food insecurity […]
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