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French Police Clash With Water Demonstrators
July 24th, 2024
Via Seed Daily, a report on recent clashes between French police and water demonstrators: Protesters clashed with police in France’s western port of La Rochelle Saturday, as conservationists and small farmers mobilised against massive irrigation reservoirs under construction. Local government officials had banned demonstrations in the city, which is a popular tourist site in summer. […]
Read more »Peak Water In An Era of Climate Change
July 22nd, 2024
Via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, commentary on the definition of peak water in an era of climate change: We live on a water planet, with vast amounts of water in the oceans, an extremely dynamic hydrologic cycle that brings renewable freshwater resources in the form of rain, snow, and river flows, and large stocks […]
Read more »In Idaho, Water Shortages Pit Farmers Against One Another
July 20th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how – this summer – a short-lived curtailment order brought a dispute to a head between farmers irrigating from the Snake River and those dependent on groundwater: Along the banks of the Snake River, below the Magic Valley’s fields of barley, wheat and corn, groundwater from a massive […]
Read more »South Texas Leaders Push To Meet Incoming Mexican President Over Water Debt ‘Crisis’
July 18th, 2024
Via InformNY, a report on efforts by South Texas leaders to meet with the incoming Mexican president over water debt ‘crisis’: Lawmakers from the Rio Grande Valley are vying to meet with Mexico’s incoming president over water owed to the United States. U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, this week wrote to Mexican President-Elect […]
Read more »Securing Indus Waters Rights
July 10th, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on Indus River water tensions: The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) based in The Hague has declared that they have the jurisdiction to preside over the Pakistan-India conflict over the contentious Kishanganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects in the territory of Kashmir. This decision raises one of the oldest and most profound […]
Read more »Sicily’s Drought Dries Up Summer Tourism
July 10th, 2024
Via Fortune a report on Sicily’s summer drought which is so acute this year that it’s drying up lakes and forcing cities to turn away tourists because they don’t have enough water: The Italian island of Sicily might have abundant history, but the same can’t be said about its water supply. Located on Sicily’s southwest […]
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