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After a Dry Spring, Northwest Africa Braces for Disruptive Crop Failures
May 27th, 2023
Courtesy of RANE Worldview, analysis of how – after a dry Spring – Northwest Africa braces for disruptive crop failures: As the summer harvest season begins in agriculture-dependent North Africa, severe drought will lead to crop failures that will increase risks of political uncertainty, social unrest and economic instability. Northwest Africa’s Maghreb region, which includes Morocco, […]
Read more »Water Woes Shake Up Spain’s Election Campaign
May 27th, 2023
Via Seed Daily, a report on the impact that drought is having upon Spanish election campaign activities: Concern over the future of Spain’s Donana natural park, which is threatened by overfarming, has made water management a key issue ahead of local elections at the end of May.Spain’s water resources are becoming exhausted while its irrigation […]
Read more »U.S. Supreme Court Limits EPA’s Power to Address Water Pollution
May 27th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on a recent US Supreme Court decision that experts say will sharply undercut the agency’s authority to protect millions of acres of wetlands under the Clean Water Act, leaving them subject to pollution without penalty: The Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to police millions […]
Read more »No River, No Power – Can Asia’s Rivers Power Growth In A Changing Climate?
May 25th, 2023
Courtesy of China Water Risk, a new report analyzing a third of global power generation capacity to find that escalating climate risks and rivers running dry can strand sizeable portions of national power generation assets, including sizeable trifecta exposure to water risks across 10 key rivers from the Yangtze, Yellow, Indus, Ganges, to the Mekong […]
Read more »Simmering Global Water Tension As Hot, Dry Summer Looms
May 25th, 2023
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, some hotspots for water tension as a hot, dry summer looms: Sun-baked fields and dusty reservoirs dot the landscape of southern Spain. Travel east in the Mediterranean and Tunisia is cutting urban water service at night to conserve supplies amid a harsh, multi-year drought. In the Horn of Africa, meanwhile, […]
Read more »Once ‘Paradise,’ Parched Colorado Valley Grapples With Arsenic In Water
May 25th, 2023
Via NPR, a report on the link between climate change-driven drought and intensifying levels of heavy metals in drinking water: When John Mestas’ ancestors moved to Colorado over 100 years ago to raise sheep in the San Luis Valley, they “hit paradise,” he says. “There was so much water, they thought it would never end,” […]
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