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Climate Change Is Driving a Global Water Trade You Can’t See
April 5th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on how more extreme weather is reshaping the availability of water, a commodity embedded in almost every product bought and sold in international markets: Every manifestation of the dangerous weather wreaking havoc around the world has one thing in common: water. As the Earth’s climate changes, the lack of water, or […]
Read more »Why Does US West Grow So Much Alfalfa?
April 4th, 2024
Via Sustainable Waters, commentary on the nexus between water use and food production in the US West: During recent years I’ve had the great fortune to work with some amazing scientists on some really interesting research projects focused on water use and food production in the American West. Due to widespread concerns over water scarcity […]
Read more »Pakistan Facing 30% Water Shortage For Sowing Season
April 4th, 2024
Via Terra Daily, a report on Pakistan’s water shortage during an upcoming critical agricultural season: Pakistan is facing a 30 percent water shortage at the start of the sowing season for cash crops such as rice and cotton, the country’s water regulator said. The Indus River System Authority (IRSA) said the gap is based on […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Most Innovative Cities Are Running Out of Water
April 4th, 2024
Via Japan Times, a report on India’s water crisis and its impact on the nation’s economic engine: At the time Egypt’s pyramids were being constructed, one of the cradles of global civilization grew up in the Indus Valley around the borders of what are today Pakistan and India. Its grid-planned cities produced sewage networks, delicate […]
Read more »From Drought to Flood: Solutions for Extreme Climate Events in Monterrey, Mexico
April 2nd, 2024
Via Harvard Graduate School of Design, a look at Monterrey, Mexico and its plans to tackle extreme water events: In 2022 and 2023, Monterrey, Mexico’s second largest city, experienced a critical shortage of water and, like Cape Town in 2018, was close to a Day Zero of water provision. The emergency made international headlines, as the […]
Read more »China Ships Tibetan Glacier Water To Climate-Threatened Maldives
April 2nd, 2024
Via Terra Daily, a report on China’s recent shipment of bottled Tibetan water to the Maldives, a shipment that is both ironical and also impactful given India’s geopolitical interest in the Maldives and ongoing tensions between India and China: China has sent more than a million bottles of water from melting Tibetan glaciers to the […]
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