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Cloud Seeding and the Water Wars of Tomorrow
September 9th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Monitor, a look at the impact of cloud seeding on future water crises: Fueled by the climate crisis and El Niño, 2024 has been a year of global extreme temperatures. Australia suffered a string of heat waves through its summer months and, in February, parts of West Africa reported 50C temperatures that made “time […]
Read more »Customers Sue an Arizona Water District Amid Drought and Surging Demand
September 7th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, an article on how – in Strawberry, Arizona – a lack of community outreach and confusion over how drought was impacting the water district sparked a messy battle over drilling a new deep well: Nearly two years ago, officials with the Pine-Strawberry Water Improvement District seemed on the verge of finding […]
Read more »U.S. Midwest and Great Plains: Gearing Up For Water Fights Fueled By Climate Change
September 6th, 2024
Via KCUR, a report on the U.S. where the Midwest and Great Plains are gearing up for water fights fueled by climate change: Water scarcity could threaten the Midwest as climate change puts pressure on water systems. With that scarcity, legal fights over water could become more common. Where the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers meet […]
Read more »Many U.S. West Farmers Ready To Sell Groundwater Rights As Aquifers Shrink
September 5th, 2024
Via KUNR, a report that many U.S. Mountain West farmers are ready to sell groundwater rights as aquifers shrink: Decades of drought and overpumping are draining groundwater tables across the West. Now, some states are buying farmers’ water rights to free up supplies – and plenty of farmers are ready to sell. In Nevada’s Walker […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Record Rainfall Spoils Crops in China, Rattling Its Leaders
September 4th, 2024
Via the New York Times, an article on how record rainfall has impacted food production in China and emphasized the nation’s water crises (some areas have too much, and others too little): After weeks of drought, farmers in the typically arid agricultural belt in northern China were ill prepared for the torrential rain that inundated […]
Read more »Water and Climate: Inseparable
September 2nd, 2024
Via The Economist, a reminder of why water and climate are inseparable: Rising temperatures do more than make the world hotter. Widespread weather impacts are one of the reasons why scientists prefer the term “climate change” to “global warming”. But it can be hard to grasp just how connected the climate and the water cycle […]
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