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How A Mega Dam Has Caused A Mega Power Crisis For Zambia
October 8th, 2024
Via BBC, a report on how a mega dam has caused a mega power crisis for Zambia: Despite having the mighty Zambezi River and the massive hydro-powered Kariba Dam, Zambia is currently grappling with the worst electricity blackouts in living memory. The crisis is so severe that cities and towns across the country are sometimes […]
Read more »Zimbabwe’s Second Biggest City to Extend Water Cuts to 130 Hours a Week
October 8th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on Zimbabwe’s water scarcity issues: Zimbabwe’s second biggest city of Bulawayo plans to extend water cuts to almost 5 1/2 days a week after closing a third of its six supply reservoirs amid the worst drought in 40 years. The increase in restrictions to 130 hours a week from 120 will […]
Read more »State of Global Water Resources 2023
October 7th, 2024
Truly alarming report from the World Meteorological Organization on global water resources & increasing water stress. 2023 was the driest year for rivers in 33 years. It also saw the greatest glacier melt in 50 years. Along with its authoritative statistics, the report gets a lot right, including this spot on quote by the WMO secretary […]
Read more »A Changing Climate Is Scorching the World’s Biggest River
October 6th, 2024
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at how – as a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River – Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway: The world’s largest river is parched. The Amazon River, battered by back-to-back droughts fueled […]
Read more »Romania Is Europe’s Nation of Farmers, But Water Scarcity Is Causing Its Crops To Die
October 6th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a look at how depleting water supplies are jeopardizing Romania’s role in the EU food supply chain: The 191 kilometer-long canal linking the Siret river in Romania to the country’s rich, fertile Baragan plain never caught the imagination of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The project only finally got going in 1986, three years before […]
Read more »Somalia Accuses Ethiopia Of ‘Deliberately Releasing Water’ To Cause Flooding
October 4th, 2024
Via The Addis Standard, an article on Somalia’s president’s accusations that Ethiopia is ‘deliberately releasing water’ to cause flooding: Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has accused Ethiopia of “deliberately releasing water from reservoirs at dams upstream” to cause flooding in Somalia, escalating tensions between the two Horn of Africa nations. In an interview with The Economist on […]
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