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US Groundwater Is Being Shipped Overseas
June 11th, 2024
Via Mother Jones, a commentary on how Western states are selling off their aquifers to China and Gulf States: Alfalfa hay is a water-intensive crop, and exporting it is equivalent to exporting precious groundwater.Jack Richardson Water is life. It’s also big business. In our November + December 2023 issue, Mother Jones dives into the West’s […]
Read more »The Global Race for Water in the Arizona Desert
June 10th, 2024
Via Mother Jones, a podcast on a surprising contributor to the water crisis in the American West: Bales of hay are stored under shelters at Al Dahra Farms in the McMullen Valley in Wenden, Arizona. John Locher/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Nine […]
Read more »Chile’s Lithium Dreams Raise Water Concerns In Its Desert
June 8th, 2024
Via Energy Daily, a look at how Chile’s lithium dreams raise water concerns in the desert As night falls in Chile’s Atacama desert, the world’s driest, a drilling machine extracts brine to measure levels of lithium — a crucial mineral for the global switch to cleaner energy, but harmful in its own way. Chile is […]
Read more »Mexico City Is Just The Beginning: 11 Other Cities at Risk of Running Out Of Water
June 7th, 2024
Via Business Insider, a list of 11 other cities at risk of running out of water: Mexico City is on the brink of a water catastrophe. Experts predict that the city of 8.8 million people could run out of drinking water this month. But Mexico City is not the first city with a water crisis […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Tallest Waterfall In China Is Fed By Pipes
June 5th, 2024
Via The Washington Post, a report on Yuntai Falls – considered China’s “tallest uninterrupted waterfall” – which, officials admitted, has its water is sourced from a pipe network during the drier months: Shrouded in mist and towering nearly twice as high as the Washington Monument, local officials describe Yuntai Falls as China’s “tallest uninterrupted waterfall” […]
Read more »Why the Warming Himalaya Are A Water Crisis for Half of Asia
June 2nd, 2024
Via Spotify, an interesting podcast on As the planet warms, with north India’s plains sweltering under an unprecedented heat wave, Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than ever before. On current trends, glaciers in just the Eastern Himalayas, which include Nepal and Bhutan, will lose up to 75 per cent of their ice in the near […]
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