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Water Wipeout: How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting World’s Groundwater
March 1st, 2024
Via Yale e360, a look at how farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers around the globe: There is a […]
Read more »Court Rulings Give U.S. States New Power to Protect Groundwater
March 1st, 2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on how – in the space of a few weeks – judges in Idaho, Nevada and Montana have altered the landscape for conserving dwindling aquifers: After years of dangerous decline in the nation’s groundwater, a series of developments in Western states indicate that state and federal officials […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Thirst for Improved Water Security
March 1st, 2024
Via East Asia Forum, commentary on India’s water scarcity challenge: India is facing a severe water crisis, leading to almost 200,000 deaths annually. It is crucial for the government to reassess power and water subsidies, implement targeted programs addressing groundwater depletion, shift crop patterns towards less water-intensive options and adopt efficient technologies to tackle the […]
Read more »One Of The World’s Great Lakes Is Vanishing – and Leaving Toxic Dust In Its Wake
March 1st, 2024
Via The Independent, a report on the Great Salt Lake, the largest saline lake in the western hemisphere, which is at risk of disappearing in just five years: Some things are so precious, so essential for the common good, they cannot be bought or sold. They fall, instead, to the public trust, a doctrine of […]
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