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‘Whack-a-Mole Situation’: Algerian Officials Wrestle with Water Shortage Anger
July 3rd, 2024
Via The Guardian, a report on Algeria, where critics say the state is not acting fast enough to build desalination stations to deal with dwindling rainfall and resulting drought: On 8 June, anger over months of water rationing spilled over in the drought-stricken central Algerian town of Tiaret, where balaclava-wearing demonstrators barricaded roads and burned […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Looming Water Crisis Threatens Everything from Data Centers to Farms
July 2nd, 2024
Via The Economist, a report on China’s looming water crisis: In Queshan county, on the plains of central China, fields that are usually green with maize plants are brown and dusty. It has barely rained for two months and village wells are running dry. “We depend on the Emperor of Heaven to make a living,” […]
Read more »Colorado River Water Use in Three States Drops to 40-Year Low
July 2nd, 2024
Via Circle of Blue, a report on Colorado River water use and a report that Arizona, California, and Nevada took less water from the struggling river: As the Colorado River declines, one fundamental question hangs over the Southwest’s most important waterway: can its people and industries slash their water use, thus aligning their water demands […]
Read more »Every Drop Counts In America’s River Crisis
July 2nd, 2024
Via National Geographic, a look at the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers, two of the most threatened rivers in the U.S.: Our nation’s most vital waterways are drying up at an alarming rate due to global warming, increased human water use, and other man-made impacts. Nowhere is this crisis seen as dramatically than in the […]
Read more »Hoping For A Miracle To Save The Ogallala Aquifer? Prepare The New Dust Bowl.
July 2nd, 2024
Via the Kansas Reflector, an article on the urgent challenges facing the Ogallala Aquifer: In the summer of 1894, a curious railway car plied the tracks of western Kansas, a chemical soup wafting to a sky ruled by a demon sun and chastened by moisture-devouring winds. At the helm of this experiment on wheels, owned […]
Read more »Was Iranian President Raisi A Martyr To Climate Change?
July 1st, 2024
Via Foreign Policy in Focus, commentary on Iran’s struggle to address its water shortage: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died on May 19 while returning from a ceremony to inaugurate a hydropower project in a remote corner of northwestern Iran. Why would a head of state brave the hazardous conditions of unseasonal blizzards in a mountainous […]
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