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Tijuana, Reliant on the Colorado River, Faces a Water Crisis
September 10th, 2023
Via Associated Press, a video look at Tijuana’s water crisis: Tijuana, a bustling border city in northwestern Mexico, is experiencing a severe water crisis due to dwindling supplies from the Colorado River, population growth, and aging infrastructure. For many citizens, water trucks or “pipas” are the only source of drinking water, their route extending with each passing […]
Read more »The Colorado River: Significantly Decline Due to Climate Change
September 10th, 2023
Via Scripps News, a look at how rising temperatures have sucked more than 10 trillion gallons of water out of the Colorado River Basin between 2000 and 2021: The Colorado River is an artery that pumps millions of gallons of water to tens of millions of people in the Southwestern United States. And as much […]
Read more »Mekong: A Vital Regional River Can Be a Route for U.S. Diplomacy
September 10th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a commentary that U.S. President Biden’s Vietnam deals should center on the Mekong: On Sept. 10, Joe Biden pays his first visit to Vietnam as U.S. president, where he is expected to ink a deal to elevate the U.S.-Vietnam relationship from “comprehensive” to “comprehensive strategic”—the highest level of Vietnam’s diplomatic hierarchy. […]
Read more »Palestinian Water Woes Highlight Dashed Hopes of Oslo Accords
September 10th, 2023
Via Al Monitor, a report on how Palestinian water woes highlight the dashed hopes of the Oslo Accords: Thirty years after the landmark Oslo Accords, Palestinian hopes for statehood seem as remote as ever and popular frustration is rife — nowhere more than over access to water. The Israeli-Palestinian dispute centres on land but also […]
Read more »Water Finance: New Path Forward For Irrigated Agriculture?
September 7th, 2023
Via Farm Progress, an article on water finance which uses innovative financial incentives to balance a farmer’s economic needs with the preservation of their water resources, using a combination of loans, grants, equity, debt and other financial instruments to make water management economically viable: As I write this, I just finished up an article for […]
Read more »Chicago Suburbs, Running Out of Water, Will Tap Lake Michigan
September 7th, 2023
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on a U.S. city in which groundwater is now running dry where water is abundant: A city straddling the Des Plaines River that is less than 30 miles from one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes is an unexpected setting for a water shortage. But that’s the situation […]
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