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South Texas Leaders Push To Meet Incoming Mexican President Over Water Debt ‘Crisis’
July 18th, 2024
Via InformNY, a report on efforts by South Texas leaders to meet with the incoming Mexican president over water debt ‘crisis’: Lawmakers from the Rio Grande Valley are vying to meet with Mexico’s incoming president over water owed to the United States. U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, this week wrote to Mexican President-Elect […]
Read more »Securing Indus Waters Rights
July 10th, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on Indus River water tensions: The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) based in The Hague has declared that they have the jurisdiction to preside over the Pakistan-India conflict over the contentious Kishanganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects in the territory of Kashmir. This decision raises one of the oldest and most profound […]
Read more »Sicily’s Drought Dries Up Summer Tourism
July 10th, 2024
Via Fortune a report on Sicily’s summer drought which is so acute this year that it’s drying up lakes and forcing cities to turn away tourists because they don’t have enough water: The Italian island of Sicily might have abundant history, but the same can’t be said about its water supply. Located on Sicily’s southwest […]
Read more »As Drought Parches Mexico, A Yaqui Water Defender Fights for A Sacred River
July 10th, 2024
Via Mongabay, an article on a Yaqui water defender fighting for a sacred river in Mexico: On Sept. 11, 2014, Mario Luna Romero was arrested by state judicial police in Obregón, a city on the periphery of his tribe’s territory in Sonora, and transported to a maximum-security prison. They accused him of being involved in […]
Read more »‘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,” […]
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