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Afghanistan Seeks to Control Its Own Water Destiny
May 6th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a look at how the Taliban’s plan to upgrade Afghanistan’s water infrastructure is raising tensions with neighboring countries: Facing acute drought conditions, the Taliban government is undertaking an ambitious program to upgrade its water infrastructure. However, the program has elevated tensions with the countries surrounding Afghanistan. Kabul lacks the technical ability to […]
Read more »Drought-Stricken Spain Is Running Dry
May 5th, 2023
Via CNN, a report on Spain’s drought: Standing in his field of stunted, withered maize, Santi Caudevilla is very worried. “If the weather does not change it will be zero. Nothing is going to be harvested,” he said. Caudevilla, who grows maize, sorghum and other crops in Gimenells in Catalonia, has been hit hard by the severe drought which […]
Read more »The Water Brokers
May 4th, 2023
Courtesy of GRIST, a look at a small Nevada company which spent decades buying water and now – as the West dries up – is cashing out: For the first two decades of the 21st century, not even a once-in-a-millennium drought could deter real estate developers from building vast suburban tracts on the wild edges […]
Read more »Potential Solutions for Vietnam’s Water Scarce Delta
May 2nd, 2023
Via East Asia Forum, a look at potential solutions for the water-scarce Mekong Delta: The 21st century has seen a rapid increase in the number of countries in the Global South experiencing water scarcity. In the Mekong region, environment–development conflicts driven by climate change and upstream hydropower development jeopardise water supply in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD). […]
Read more »Europe’s Produce At Stake In Spain’s Water War
May 2nd, 2023
Via Terra Daily, an article on the impact of Spain’s water war on European food security: Spanish farmer Juan Francisco Abellaneda’s salads and watermelons fill the shelves of European supermarkets winter and summer. But maybe not for much longer.The tap that turned the arid semi-desert of southeastern Spain into Europe’s market garden may be about […]
Read more »In Arizona, Fresh Scrutiny of Saudi-Owned Farm’s Water Use
May 2nd, 2023
Via CityNews, a report on Arizona’s recent decision to rescind drilling permits for Fondomonte Arizona, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Almarai Co., to pump up to 3,000 gallons of water per minute to irrigate its forage crops: In rural Arizona’s La Paz County, on the state’s rugged border with California, the decision by a Saudi-owned […]
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