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The Thirsty Dragon: China Taps Into Additional Water Conservation Efforts
November 3rd, 2023
Via ECNS.cn, a look at China’s increasing focus on water conservation: China’s local-level authorities are increasingly prioritizing investment effectiveness, focusing on water conservancy projects closely related to people’s livelihoods. This is also in line with the nation’s efforts at boosting urbanization, rural vitalization and economic recovery through better infrastructure, experts said. According to the Ministry […]
Read more »Multi-Million Dollar Investment To Help Ease Pressure on Ogallala Aquifer
November 3rd, 2023
Via Fox34, a report on a multi-million dollar investment to help ease pressure on the Ogallala aquifer: A vital resource is set to flow into eastern New Mexico. The federal government is investing millions of dollars to make sure there is clean drinking water for the foreseeable future. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland made […]
Read more »Colorado River Crisis Averted?
November 3rd, 2023
Via The Land Desk, commentary on the US federal government’s federal proposal to cut Lower Basin water use which is a start, but dry winters in the next three years could send the river back to the brink of a crisis: Maybe by now you’ve heard that the collective users of the Colorado River have […]
Read more »Argentina’s Kilimo on Developing a Water Savings Market in Latin America
November 1st, 2023
Via AgFunder News, a look at one effort to develop a water savings market in Latin America: After several years of selling irrigation management tools to farmers, Argentina-based Kilimo recently adjusted its business model to focus on “water neutrality” for corporates. The concept is “kind of like carbon markets but specifically tied to water savings,” says Kilimo […]
Read more »Water Wars: When the Taps Run Dry
November 1st, 2023
Via the Breakthrough Institute, an article on the desert plains beyond the Rocky Mountains, where mega-drought is no longer a theory: Shore dwellers in New Jersey, the Carolinas, and Florida barred from commercial flood insurance; homeowners in the forests of the Rockies and Sierra Nevada denied fire insurance by firms whose loss calculations now see […]
Read more »Megafires Endanger Water Supplies In American West
November 1st, 2023
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at how the era of megafires endangers water supplies in American West: The largest fire in New Mexico history began with a disastrous government agency blunder. Its consequences for land and a small northern New Mexico city’s water were magnified by man-made climate change. In the first week […]
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