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California’s Salmon Industry: Facing Extinction, Not Because of Drought, but Politics and Policies
April 28th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, commentary on how water, politics, and policy are driving the salmon industry into extinction in California: Kenneth Brown, the owner of Bodega Tackle in Petaluma, reckons he has lost almost $450,000 in the last year. “I haven’t taken a paycheck in seven or eight months,” he says. He has […]
Read more »The Rising Contest Over Asia’s Water
April 27th, 2024
Via the Hinrich Foundation, an insightful presentation on the rising contest over Asia’s water: The threat of water scarcity is one of the least profiled of geoeconomic tensions in the world and particularly in Asia, where nations are vying for control over a riverine network that feeds a global race for water-dependent technologies. Visual Capitalist […]
Read more »Risk of Flooding Mapped Around the World
April 27th, 2024
Courtesy of the Visual Capitalist, a look at risk of flooding around the world: Devastating floods across Pakistan this summer have resulted in more than 1,400 lives lost and one-third of the country being under water. This raises the question: which nations and their populations are the most vulnerable to the risk of flooding around […]
Read more »Inter-Community Water Tensions In Cameroon’s Far North
April 27th, 2024
Via Crisis Group, a report on water conflict in Cameroon: What’s new??Cameroon’s Far North, the country’s poorest region, is experiencing recurrent inter-communal frictions over water reserves. As national and local authorities try to contain fighting between Choa Arab herders and Musgum fisherfolk, other ethnic groups are at risk of being drawn into a conflict that […]
Read more »Shifting Sands: Science, Policy, and Politics Collide In the Nile Delta
April 26th, 2024
Courtesy of Harvard’s Salata Institute, a report on the Nile Delta: No one knows exactly how much the sea will rise in Egypt’s Nile Delta, but rise it will. Within a few decades the water will likely displace millions of people. Still, construction and urbanization continue, often with generous state funding. The Delta’s floodplains illustrate […]
Read more »Global Groundwater Withdrawals Expected To Peak In Key Basins Globally by 2050
April 26th, 2024
Via Phys.org, a look at a new study predicts that global groundwater withdrawals are expected to peak in about one-third of the world’s basins by 2050, potentially triggering significant trade and agriculture shifts: Experimental design showing combinatorial variations of 6 parameter categories used to design 900 GCAM scenarios. Credit: Nature Sustainability (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01306-w Groundwater withdrawals are […]
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