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The Parched Tiger: India’s Urgent Water Crisis
January 11th, 2024
Via Forbes India, an article on India’s water crisis: That India is in the midst of a significant water crisis is well known, with economic growth, livelihoods, human well-being, and ecological sustainability at stake. It is not unusual to see long lines of people waiting to get water from tankers or crops shrivelled due to […]
Read more »Barcelona Warns That Drought Emergency Could Affect Household Supplies
January 11th, 2024
Via Smart Water Magazine, a report on Barcelona’s drought emergency: The Barcelona City Council in Spain has issued a cautionary statement, alerting that the drought emergency phase, looming over the Catalonia region in January due to insufficient rainfall, might impact residential water provisions should it escalate to the highest emergency level, reports Europapress. From January to November […]
Read more »How Imperial Valley Became a Target for Water
January 10th, 2024
Via The Desert Review, commentary on how California’s Imperial Valley became a target for water: If you were paying attention, strange things started happening in 2022. Reporters from the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other major news outlets began showing up in Holtville, Westmorland, and even in unassuming fields across the valley. Meanwhile, hedge […]
Read more »Today’s Data + Past History Could Equal A More Equitable Way to Divvy Up California’s Water
January 9th, 2024
Via Mavens Notebook, a look at a California project to develop new tools to allocate limited water supplies: Joan Didion wrote in the 1970s that “so much water is moved around California by so many different agencies that maybe only the movers themselves know on any given day whose water is where.” In the half-century […]
Read more »Will Arizona Close a Loophole That Kets Developers Build Without Water?
January 9th, 2024
Via Grist, an article on Arizona where – despite water woes in “wildcat” neighborhoods – lawmakers may not act to close loopholes exploited by developers: When a small Arizona community called Rio Verde Foothills lost its water supply one year ago, forcing locals to skip showers and eat off paper plates, it became a poster child for unwise desert development. […]
Read more »World War III Will Be Fought Over Water
January 8th, 2024
Via Quartz, commentary on risk of drought inspired conflict in the years ahead: In 2015, NASA’s satellite data revealed that 21 of the world’s 37 large aquifers are severely water-stressed. With growing populations, and increased demands from agriculture and industry, researchers indicated that this crisis is only likely to worsen. Rajendra Singh, known as the “water man of India,” believes […]
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