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Rising Tides, Rising Stakes: Climate Change, Conflict, and the Pursuit of Sustainable Peace
November 13th, 2023
Via Modern Diplomacy, commentary on how climate change acts as a threat multiplier, exacerbating existing challenges by escalating food insecurity, water scarcity, and resource competition: The global impact of climate change on peace and security is a prominent concern at the upcoming COP28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai this December, as emphasized by UN […]
Read more »Feds Bet on Paying for Water Conservation to Protect the Colorado River
November 13th, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a report that Arizona and other states have agreed to use considerably less water from the river through 2026, thanks in part to a wet winter: Arizona’s future was at a critical juncture at the beginning of 2023. Massive cuts to the state’s Colorado River water supply were being imposed. Deadlines loomed […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Why Parts of China Are Sinking
November 11th, 2023
Via Caixin Global, a report on why parts of China are sinking due to excessive groundwater extraction: It wasn’t until this past June that most people in Tianjin realized that the northern Chinese port city was sinking. On May 31, fissures appeared on a road in Tianjin’s Jinnan district. Several residential buildings in the surrounding […]
Read more »Colorado Squeezing Water from Urban Landscapes
November 11th, 2023
Via Big Pivots, a look at how how Colorado is navigating a world in which headwaters state struggles to embrace limits of water supply in a warming, likely drying climate: Like weekly haircuts for men, a regularly mowed lawn of Kentucky bluegrass was long a prerequisite for civic respectability in Colorado’s towns and cities. That […]
Read more »Water Crisis Deepens In Istanbul Dams
November 9th, 2023
Via the Hurriyet Daily News, a report on Turkey – with Istanbul grappling with a worsening water crisis due to drought – is now seeing the water levels in three out of the ten dams supplying water to the country’s largest city have plummeted dangerously, falling nearly 3 percent: Experiencing one of the most severe droughts in recent […]
Read more »Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Water.
November 7th, 2023
Via Mexico Today, commnetary on groundwater overuse in Mexico and the U.S.: As climatic changes continue to grip the American Southwest and precipitation declines, communities across the U.S.-Mexico border are not looking to the skies. Rather, they are turning their eyes to the ground below them, specifically to the numerous aquifers that cross the frontier. Unfortunately, […]
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