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Innovative Water Solution Combats Spain’s Severe Drought

Via BNN, a look at some innovative water solutions combating Spain’s drought: Spain is grappling with a severe drought, particularly in regions such as Andalusia and Catalonia, where water reserves are languishing below 20%. In response to this crisis, a range of technologies are being deployed, including portable desalination units and systems that extract water […]

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Drinking Toilet Water: Future of Drought-Stricken California?

Courtesy of the Washington Post, a look at how drinking toilet water may be the future of drought-stricken California: As climate change and water scarcity become increasingly urgent issues around the world, governments are turning to new options to ensure adequate water supplies — including turning sewage waste into drinking water. And if you’re in California, this may […]

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Colorado River Stakeholders Say There’s No One Solution To The Water Crisis

Via Utah Public Radio, a report on the Colorado River: The future of the Colorado River is being hashed out behind closed doors, and negotiators appear far from a long-term solution to the wide gap between water supply and water demand. At the Colorado River Water Users Association annual meeting in Las Vegas, representatives from […]

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Shrinking Caspian Sea Worries Secretive Turkmenistan

Via Terra Daily, an article on the shrinking Caspian Sea: On the Caspian Sea coast in Turkmenistan — one of the world’s most secretive states — Batyr Yusupov can no longer ferry his passengers between two ports. There is not enough water. “I used to go between Turkmenbashi and Hazar,” the 36-year-old ferry worker said […]

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California’s Water Wars See Some Breakthroughs But More Clashes Loom

Via VC Star, commentary on California’s water future: The politics of water in California could be likened to the constant grinding of tectonic plates 10 miles or more beneath its surface. The Pacific Plate battles with the North American Plate for dominance along the 800-mile-long San Andreas Fault tracing California’s coast. When one gives way, the state […]

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Egypt Announces Unsuccessful Conclusion of GERD Negotiations

Via Ahram Online, an update on the unsuccessful conclusion of GERD negotiations: Egypt announced Tuesday that the recently revived negotiation track over the long-standing dispute caused by the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has reached an end as the fourth and final trilateral round of talks with Ethiopia and Sudan, which concluded earlier today, failed […]

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