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What Will ‘Weather Whiplash’ Mean for California?
January 21st, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, insightful commentary on California’s water crisis and challenges ahead: California is built upon the great gamble of irrigation. Left alone, much of the land in the Western United States would be inhospitable to teeming cities. But we’re Americans — we couldn’t let the desert stand in our way. More […]
Read more »Don’t Forget About Water in 2023
January 21st, 2023
Via Geopolitical Futures, an article on water, a finite resource will have plenty of countries on edge in the coming year: On Jan. 16, the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources announced that Beijing invested more than 1 trillion yuan ($148 billion) on water resource management in 2022, a whopping 44 percent increase from the previous year. […]
Read more »‘Water Lords’ Extort Drought-Stricken Farmers in Bangladesh
January 21st, 2023
Via Third Pole, a look at how tubewell owners control the lives of millions of marginal farmers in Bangladesh’s northwestern districts with devastating impact on people across the Barind Tract: In late August 2022, Fulu Mia was confronted with a stark choice: whether to spend the little money he had on treating his wife’s medical […]
Read more »Desalination Could Give The Middle East Water Without Damaging Marine Life – If Managed Carefully
January 19th, 2023
Via The Conversation, commentary on the role desalination can play in addressing Middle Eastern water scarcity: More than 2 billion people live in “water stressed” countries. These are territories where more than 25% of the available freshwater resources are withdrawn for human use each year. Desalination – the process of removing salt from seawater – is increasingly being used […]
Read more »Arizona: Developers Don’t Have Enough Groundwater To Build
January 19th, 2023
Via CNBC, an article on Arizonan developer who don’t have enough groundwater to build in the desert west of Phoenix: Developers planning to build homes in the desert west of Phoenix don’t have enough groundwater supplies to move forward with their plans, a state modeling report found. Plans to construct homes for people located west of […]
Read more »Arizona’s Dry Wells Not Saudi Arabia’s Fault
January 19th, 2023
Via Green Prophet, commentary on private companies pumping Arizona’s groundwater: If you are following American media, Arizona’s water is running worryingly low. You might think it’s a local story but it’s really your story too. It’s one about local resources and who should own them. In dry Arizona, residents are cutting back, collecting rainwater in buckets […]
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