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Latin America Is Running Out of Water
November 13th, 2023
Via World Politics Review, a look at Latin America’s water challenges: Traffic through the Panama Canal is nearly half-capacity these days. Normally, 40 ships take the world’s greatest shortcut through its locks each day. Last week, the Canal Authority reduced daily passages to 25, while predicting further cuts to 18 by February. The immediate cause is […]
Read more »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 […]
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