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South Sudan May See the First Permanent Mass Displacement Due to Climate Change-Driven Flooding
September 14th, 2024
Courtesy of Wired, an article on South Sudan where protracted flooding has engulfed the country’s Sudd region due to more water entering the Nile upstream, which is driving conflict and disease and is potentially leaving the region uninhabitable: Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream […]
Read more »Another Midwest Drought Is Causing Transportation Headaches on the Mississippi River
September 14th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a report on abnormally dry conditions which have caused low water levels that disrupt barge transports carrying fuel and grain. Climatologists say it could be part of a larger trend. For the third year in a row, extreme drought conditions in the Midwest are drawing down water levels on the Mississippi […]
Read more »Does the Colorado River Need Bank Reform?
September 13th, 2024
Via Western Water Notes, commentary on the most important bank you’ve maybe never heard of – the Southwest water bank: Holding back the Colorado River at the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead serves as a visual marker for water scarcity in the Southwest. During the past 20 years, Lake Mead has fallen so far that visitors […]
Read more »Parts Of Texas ‘Out of Water’ As Rest Dries Out, Commissioner Says
September 12th, 2024
Via The Hill, an article on Texas’s water crisis: Some regions of Texas have already run out of water — and the rest face a looming crisis, the state’s agriculture commissioner said on Sunday. “We lose about a farm a week in Texas, but it’s 700 years before we run out of land,” Agriculture Commissioner […]
Read more »California’s Delta Conveyance Project: $20 Billion Effort To Avert Drought
September 12th, 2024
Via Construction Briefing, a report on California’s US$20bn water utility construction aiming to help the state avoid a climate change catastrophe: The Delta Conveyance Project is an immense US$20 billion water utility construction project working through development and permitting in the US State of California. Seeking to reroute the region’s scarce water supply to better […]
Read more »‘Enormous’ Profits From Avocado Exports Drive Water Shortages In Mexico
September 12th, 2024
Via PBS, an interview examining the impact that Mexico’s avocado exports are having upon the nation’s water supply: Demand in the United States for one popular food is driving deforestation in Mexico. Daniel Wilkinson, senior policy adviser at Climate Rights International, joins Stephanie Sy to discuss the environmental and human costs of skyrocketing avocado sales […]
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