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How Did An Argentinian Lake The Size of New York City Disappear?
September 26th, 2024
Via The Guardian, a sobering look at how drought and mismanagement have turned Lake Colhué Huapí into a virtual dustbowl. Now the race is on to save its sister lake from the same fate From the top of a hill, Yeni Szlapelis, 46, looks out over the arid plateaus of south-central Argentina at the sources of her […]
Read more »Disease and Malnutrition Stalk Water-Scarce Afghanistan
September 25th, 2024
Via Dialogue Earth, a look at how three years of drought, a pariah regime and the loss of skilled workers have crippled Afghanistan’s water infrastructure, increasing water prices and spreading disease Every evening, Abdullah Achakzai, director of the Environmental Volunteer Network (EVN), encounters the same grim reality as he returns home from work in Kabul. […]
Read more »How Cities Run Dry
September 24th, 2024
Via Yale Climate Connection, an article on how – with rivers, lakes, and reservoirs long strained by overuse now facing climate change – some cities are turning to water restrictions to get back on track: In April 2024, more than 9 million residents of Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city, were told to collect rainwater – if the city […]
Read more »Navajo Nation: America’s Water-Inequality Capital. It Might Be About to Change
September 23rd, 2024
Via Time Magazine, an article on Navajo Nation and water challenges facing America’s First Nations: In the Navajo Nation—a sweeping landscape of red-rock canyons and desert that takes in the Four Corners—water is not taken for granted. Here, more than 1 in 3 Diné, as Navajo people call themselves, must haul water to their homes, […]
Read more »Visualizing the Global Population by Water Security Levels
September 23rd, 2024
Via Visual Capitalist, a report on global water scarcity: Most of the world’s population today lives in countries facing critical water security issues. Dealing with issues such as declining freshwater availability, demand from growing populations, insufficient infrastructure, or flawed water governance can impact how easily a country’s population can access water. A combination of multiple factors […]
Read more »They’ve Got a Plan to Fight Global Warming. It Could Alter the Oceans.
September 23rd, 2024
Via the New York Times, an article on a forthcoming complexity to water politics – carbon removal: In a quiet patch of forest in Nova Scotia, a company is building a machine designed to help slow global warming by transforming Earth’s rivers and oceans into giant sponges that absorb carbon dioxide from the air. When […]
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