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Megadrought Forces End To Sugarcane Farming in Parched Texas
May 1st, 2024
Via The Guardian, an article on the drought-driven end to sugarcane farming in parched Texas, where there’s just not enough water in the Rio Grande to share between the US and Mexico: Tudor Uhlhorn has been too busy auctioning off agricultural equipment to grieve the “death” of Texas’s last sugar mill. “I’m as sad as anyone […]
Read more »Kazakhstan Invests Billions To Address Water Scarcity
May 1st, 2024
Via Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting, a report on Kazakhstan’s efforts to battle water scarcity: Despite the disastrous floods this spring, it is a usual picture for particular regions of Kazakhstan to face water shortages in summer. To maintain water content in the three largest rivers of the country, the state increases expenses. In […]
Read more »Drought and Unequal Water Rights Threaten Family Farms in Chile
April 30th, 2024
Via IPS News, an article on how rural farmers in Chile are facing a combination of climate change-induced mega droughts, and water policies that make access unaffordable and a State that either doesn’t want to or dares not intervene in the water market means family enterprises are dying out: Lack of water threatens the very […]
Read more »G7 To Set Up Water Coalition To Tackle Crises
April 30th, 2024
Via Energy Daily a report that the G7 to set up water coalition to tackle crises: French minister The G7 is setting up a water coalition to tackle the global water crisis, which is being exacerbated by climate change, France’s ecological transition minister said Monday. The Group of Seven industrialised nations meeting for two-day talks […]
Read more »Indonesia and the Future of Water Diplomacy
April 29th, 2024
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at the forthcoming 10th World Water Forum conference, will be an important momentum for Indonesia to fight for access to clean water and better sanitation for its people and the world as a whole: Through its participation in the World Water Forum, Indonesia, the largest archipelagic country in the world, […]
Read more »Feds Say He Masterminded An Epic California Water Heist. Some farmers Say He’s Their Robin Hood
April 29th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, an article on a federal allegation that a San Joaquin Valley water district official secretly directed employees to exploit a leak in the Delta-Mendota Canal: Robert Zavala was fresh out of the Marines and looking to escape dead-end work at a poultry plant in the early 1990s when his old […]
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