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Greening The Desert: Is Sisi’s Grand Plan Using Up All of Egypt’s Water?
July 31st, 2024
Via The Guardian, a report on how President Sisi’s ‘Future of Egypt’ plan envisages turning tracts of desert into farmland to grow crops for export. But with sky-high food price inflation and a water deficit, critics doubt it is viable: For the two hours drivers can spend on the eight-lane, often empty, highway from Cairo […]
Read more »The Intensifying Impacts of Upstream Dams on the Mekong
July 27th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on how the Mekong Delta of Vietnam stands to be most in danger in the time of accelerating and intersecting impacts from climate change and hydropower: This year marked another record-setting dry season for the Mekong basin. Mekong Environment Forum, an NGO based in Can Tho City, has assisted the […]
Read more »How Will We Solve The World’s Water Wars? An Ancient Spanish Court Offers One Answer
July 26th, 2024
Via The Guardian, commentary on how – from Los Angeles to Cairo – the global water crisis is escalating – but Valencia’s Tribunal de les Aigües could inspire a solution: Every Thursday at noon, outside the west door of Valencia’s cathedral, nine black-cloaked figures – one wearing a banded cap and with a ceremonial harpoon […]
Read more »White House Looks to Safeguard Groundwater Supplies as Aquifers Decline Nationwide
July 26th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, an article on how the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is working with local stakeholders to determine how the federal government can help communities dependent on groundwater protect the dwindling resource: In the middle of summer in the nation’s hottest city, water experts from local governments, tribal nations, […]
Read more »Water Rights Spark Tension As Murray-Darling Basin Plan Shapes Agriculture
July 25th, 2024
Via Pinnacle Gazette, an article on how the Australian federal government’s water buyback scheme creates challenges and shifts for farmers amid rising water prices and environmental needs: Keeping water flowing through the Murray-Darling Basin has become a high-stakes game in Australia, one where both the environment and agriculture are vying for a dwindling resource. As […]
Read more »Thirsty New Subdivisions Have Made the Texas Groundwater Crisis Plain to See
July 25th, 2024
Via The Texas Tribune, a look at how overdevelopment in Texas,and the rules that encourage it, could literally sink communities such as Katy, where the land is subsiding due to groundwater extraction: Longhorns used to graze across the street from the house where Ozzy Tirmizi settled with his family in Katy, a western exurb of […]
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