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Taliban Vow To Finish Disputed Canal At ‘Any Cost’
December 10th, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on the Taliban’s vow to finish a disputed canal at ‘any cost’ despite its Central Asian neighbors crying foul over its plans to tap shared river: A massive canal project in Afghanistan has alarmed the country’s neighbors over fears it will drain a river key to their agricultural economies, but […]
Read more »New Mexico Looks to Address Increasing Aridity With Brackish and Produced Water
December 10th, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a report that New Mexico plans to spend $500 million on salty water from deep underground and wastewater from oil and gas production as a solution to its shortage: New Mexico will invest $500 million into purchasing water from controversial sources, including treated oilfield wastewater, as a means to bolster the state’s […]
Read more »Drought Already Hampering The Green Energy Revolution
December 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of Diplomatic Courier, a look at the impact that water scarcity has on the great green energy transition in South America, with droughts making hydroelectricity less reliable: Climate change is one—if not the—existential threat of the 21st century. While global efforts to combat climate change are hotly debated and have not always yielded the […]
Read more »Water and the High Price of Bad Economics
December 3rd, 2023
Via Project Syndicate, commentary on how the increasingly well-documented links between climate change, biodiversity loss, and water insecurity point to a fundamental issue: our economic systems are based on flawed thinking. We are forever reacting to market failures when we should be pursuing proactive strategies to shape the economy for the common good. Nearly 30 […]
Read more »Colorado River Deal Opens Cash Spigot For Big Farms
December 3rd, 2023
Via Politico, an article on how billions of dollars of Inflation Reduction Act money meant to tackle drought looks likely to make it more expensive to clinch a broader deal critical to economies in several states: A widely hailed deal to conserve water from the shrinking Colorado River is turning into a windfall for some […]
Read more »Two Companies That Dominate The U.S. Carrot Crop …And Water Use
December 1st, 2023
Courtesy of Forbes, a report on the two companies that dominate the U.S. carrot crop, and dominate water use in Southern California’s Cuyama Valley, where residents are calling for a boycott of Big Carrot over the amount of water their farms are sucking out of the ground: It sounds weird to say that carrots are […]
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