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Water For The Future: Tangiers Takes Steps To Secure Its Blue Gold
April 28th, 2024
Via Zawya, a look at Tangiers’ effforts to secure its water: The white city of Tangiers wakes gently at daybreak. Schoolchildren mill up and down the main streets of the old town, the medina, crossing paths with the crowd heading to offices and a few morning tourists. Overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar at the northern tip […]
Read more »Mexico Water Wars: Farmers Take Over Avocado Orchards That Need Too Much Water
April 28th, 2024
Via Fast Company, an article on water conflicts between Mexican farmers and avocado growers—who are often sponsored by or pay protection money to drug cartels: As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action on thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in […]
Read more »California’s Salmon Industry: Facing Extinction, Not Because of Drought, but Politics and Policies
April 28th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, commentary on how water, politics, and policy are driving the salmon industry into extinction in California: Kenneth Brown, the owner of Bodega Tackle in Petaluma, reckons he has lost almost $450,000 in the last year. “I haven’t taken a paycheck in seven or eight months,” he says. He has […]
Read more »The Rising Contest Over Asia’s Water
April 27th, 2024
Via the Hinrich Foundation, an insightful presentation on the rising contest over Asia’s water: The threat of water scarcity is one of the least profiled of geoeconomic tensions in the world and particularly in Asia, where nations are vying for control over a riverine network that feeds a global race for water-dependent technologies. Visual Capitalist […]
Read more »Risk of Flooding Mapped Around the World
April 27th, 2024
Courtesy of the Visual Capitalist, a look at risk of flooding around the world: Devastating floods across Pakistan this summer have resulted in more than 1,400 lives lost and one-third of the country being under water. This raises the question: which nations and their populations are the most vulnerable to the risk of flooding around […]
Read more »Inter-Community Water Tensions In Cameroon’s Far North
April 27th, 2024
Via Crisis Group, a report on water conflict in Cameroon: What’s new??Cameroon’s Far North, the country’s poorest region, is experiencing recurrent inter-communal frictions over water reserves. As national and local authorities try to contain fighting between Choa Arab herders and Musgum fisherfolk, other ethnic groups are at risk of being drawn into a conflict that […]
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