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Northern Mexico’s Historic Water Shortage in Summer 2022
January 31st, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on Mexico’s historic summer 2022 drought: Water has become a sacred commodity in northern Mexico. Reservoirs have been hitting the bottom of their basins. Taps have been running dry for millions of people in the city of Monterrey, where the water shortage was called a matter of national security. […]
Read more »$500M Pledged For Jihadist-Torn Lake Chad
January 31st, 2023
Via Terra Daily, an article on Lake Chad: States in western Africa’s Lake Chad region and international donors have pledged more than $500 million to help civilians threatened by jihadist insurgents and climate change, the organisers said on Friday. The money pledged by the Lake Chad Basin High Level Conference will “support a coordinated, complementary […]
Read more »Iran-Afghanistan Tensions Now Rising Over Water
January 31st, 2023
Via Fair Observer, an article on rising tensions between Iran and Afghanistan over the Helmand River: The dispute over the Helmand River between Iran and Afghanistan is an old one. In the 1870s, when Afghanistan was still under British control, the border between the neighbors was drawn along the main branch of the river. Helmand is […]
Read more »How Native Americans Will Shape the Future of Water in the U.S. West
January 29th, 2023
Courtesy of The New Yorker, a look how U.S. tribal nations – which hold the rights to significant portions of the Colorado River – are showing the way to sustainability in the era of increasing drought: As a child, Stephen Lewis heard stories about a river that, for the most part, no longer flowed. “How I grew […]
Read more »Indus Water Treaty: Pakistan And India Under International Law
January 29th, 2023
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the Indus Water Treaty: Water is increasingly being recognized as one of the key impediments to development in arid and semiarid nations, where adequate quantity and quality of water for varied needs has already become a very tough challenge. All present trends point to a considerable growth in the complexity […]
Read more »Water Scarcity in the Arab World
January 27th, 2023
Via Geopolitical Futures, a report on the Arab World’s water challenges: Many prosperous ancient civilizations in the Arab world had at least one thing in common: an abundance of water. Today, however, the Arab region in West Asia and North Africa could become the most water-scarce area in the world. Demand is rising, driven […]
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