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The Parched Tiger: Pakistan’s Indus Delta Drying Up Due To Lack Of Adequate Inflow
January 10th, 2023
Via the Technology Times, a report that that Indus deltas are drying up due to the lack of adequate inflow: Delta is a place where the Indus River falls into the Arabian Sea in Kacho Chhan, near Thatta. The Indus is the world’s fifth largest delta, but it has been drying up due to a […]
Read more »A Water War Is Brewing Over the Dwindling Colorado River
January 7th, 2023
Via ProPublica, commentary on the tensions arising from a dwindling Colorado River: On a crisp day this fall I drove southeast from Grand Junction, Colorado, into the Uncompahgre Valley, a rich basin of row crops and hayfields. A snow line hung like a bowl cut around the upper cliffs of the Grand Mesa, while in […]
Read more »Great Salt Lake Will Disappear In 5 Years Without Massive ‘Emergency Rescue’
January 7th, 2023
Via CNN, a report on Great Salt Lake’s dire future: The Great Salt Lake in Utah is facing “unprecedented danger,” experts say, as it has fallen to an alarmingly low level amid a climate change-fueled megadrought that’s tightening its grip in the West. Less than two weeks away from Utah’s 2023 legislative session, nearly three dozen scientists […]
Read more »Low Water Levels Have Created An Energy Crisis At The World’s Largest Dam
January 6th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on the impact that drought is having on Kariba Dam: The water level at the world’s largest man-made dam — which generates hydroelectric power for millions of people in Zambia and Zimbabwe — has dropped to a record low, forcing local energy companies to make drastic cuts. The […]
Read more »How Rapid Urbanization in Africa Compounds Water Challenges
January 5th, 2023
Via World Resources Institute, a report on how rapid urbanization in Africa compounds the continent’s water challenges: Africa’s population is growing?faster?than any other continent’s and its urban population is expected to?more than double?by 2050. This urban rapid growth, which is mostly sprawling “horizontal” growth, as the?World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City?shows, is combining […]
Read more »2023 Top Risks: Water Stress
January 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of Eurasia Group, a report that water stress is #10 of 2023’s top global risks: This year, water stress will become a global and systemic challenge … while governments will still treat it as a temporary crisis.In 2022, receding water levels exacerbated the food crisis in Africa, halted shipping and nuclear output in Europe, […]
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