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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 […]
Read more »The Key to Fix California’s Inadequate Water Storage? Put Water Underground, Scientists Say
September 22nd, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a report on a new study that finds Calfornia should replenish groundwater aquifers to sustain agriculture: A new University of California Riverside study on California agriculture and climate proposes a plan for new water capture, storage and distribution systems throughout California that will sustain agriculture and keep up with climate trajectories. Available water […]
Read more »The North American Water and Power Alliance: The Forgotten Project That Could Have Saved America From Drought
September 20th, 2024
Via the now discontinued BuzzFeed (but saved with web archive), a look at the North American Water and Power Alliance – an audacious proposal to divert water to parched western states that would have cost hundreds of billions of dollars and pissed off Canada. But what if it had worked? When the fire started on a […]
Read more »Strengthening Water Security Through International Cooperation: The Morocco-China Partnership
September 19th, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, an article on cooperation between China and Morocco around water: As the world grapples with the growing challenges of climate change, water security has become a central concern for many nations. In this context, the recent signing of a memorandum of understanding between Morocco and China marks a significant step toward addressing […]
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