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Cambodia Breaks Ground On Controversial China-funded Canal: Will Be Built ‘No Matter The Cost’
August 6th, 2024
Via AP News, a report on Cambodia breaking ground to build a controversial, China-funded canal to link the capital Phnom Penh to the sea despite environmental concerns and the risk of straining ties with neighboring Vietnam. The $1.7 billion, 180-kilometer Funan Techo canal will connect the country’s capital with Kep province on the country’s south […]
Read more »Will We Have to Pump the Great Lakes to California to Feed the Nation?
August 5th, 2024
Via New York Times, a look at the water/food nexus in the U.S. and the coming impact of climate change: Driving north through California’s Tejon Pass on Interstate 5, you spill down out of the mountains onto a breathtaking expanse of farm fields like few others in the world. Rows of almond, pistachio and citrus […]
Read more »Taking Over From The Inside: China’s Growing Reach Into Local Waters
August 4th, 2024
Via New European, a look at how China – the superpower of seafood – dominates more than just the high seas: On March 14, 2016, in the squid grounds off the coast of Patagonia, a rusty Chinese squid jigger called the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 10 was fishing illegally in Argentina’s national waters. Spotted by […]
Read more »California’s Water Supplies Could Be Drying Up
August 2nd, 2024
Via Newsweek, a report on California’s growing water crisis: California faces a growing water crisis as climate change risks reducing supplies from the State Water Project by as much as 23 percent in 20 years, according to projections. A new report, published on Wednesday by California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR), states that a 23 […]
Read more »Greening The Desert: Is Sisi’s Grand Plan Using Up All of Egypt’s Water?
July 31st, 2024
Via The Guardian, a report on how President Sisi’s ‘Future of Egypt’ plan envisages turning tracts of desert into farmland to grow crops for export. But with sky-high food price inflation and a water deficit, critics doubt it is viable: For the two hours drivers can spend on the eight-lane, often empty, highway from Cairo […]
Read more »The Intensifying Impacts of Upstream Dams on the Mekong
July 27th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on how the Mekong Delta of Vietnam stands to be most in danger in the time of accelerating and intersecting impacts from climate change and hydropower: This year marked another record-setting dry season for the Mekong basin. Mekong Environment Forum, an NGO based in Can Tho City, has assisted the […]
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