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As Rio Grande Runs Dry, South Texas Cities Look To Alternatives For Water
July 25th, 2024
Via The Texas Tribune, a report on how, as the Rio Grande runs dry, South Texas cities are looking to alternatives for water: The Rio Grande is no longer a reliable source of water for South Texas. That’s the sobering conclusion Rio Grande Valley officials are facing as water levels at the international reservoirs that […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Warns of Hotter, Longer Heatwaves As Climate Change Intensifies
July 24th, 2024
Via Reuters, a report on China’s expectation of hotter, longer heatwaves as climate change intensifies: China is facing hotter and longer heatwaves and more frequent and unpredictable heavy rain as a result of climate change, the weather bureau warned on Thursday, as the world’s second-biggest economy braces for another scorching summer. In its annual climate […]
Read more »How Israel’s War on Gaza Unraveled a Landmark Mideast Water-for-Energy Deal
July 24th, 2024
Via Grist, a detailed look at how Israel’s war on Gaza impacted Just weeks before the international climate summit in Dubai, one of the biggest climate agreements ever proposed between Middle Eastern countries unraveled. For two years, Israel and Jordan had negotiated a trade of precious resources they’ll need in a hotter future: renewable energy […]
Read more »French Police Clash With Water Demonstrators
July 24th, 2024
Via Seed Daily, a report on recent clashes between French police and water demonstrators: Protesters clashed with police in France’s western port of La Rochelle Saturday, as conservationists and small farmers mobilised against massive irrigation reservoirs under construction. Local government officials had banned demonstrations in the city, which is a popular tourist site in summer. […]
Read more »Peak Water In An Era of Climate Change
July 22nd, 2024
Via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, commentary on the definition of peak water in an era of climate change: We live on a water planet, with vast amounts of water in the oceans, an extremely dynamic hydrologic cycle that brings renewable freshwater resources in the form of rain, snow, and river flows, and large stocks […]
Read more »In Idaho, Water Shortages Pit Farmers Against One Another
July 20th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how – this summer – a short-lived curtailment order brought a dispute to a head between farmers irrigating from the Snake River and those dependent on groundwater: Along the banks of the Snake River, below the Magic Valley’s fields of barley, wheat and corn, groundwater from a massive […]
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