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Russia Is Trying to Push River Borders
April 17th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how Russia is employing river-related games to impact its neighbors: Almost a year ago, Russian border guards removed half the buoys that had been placed to mark the border between Russia and Estonia in the Narva River. Estonia’s government has repeatedly (and politely) reminded Russia to return the buoys, […]
Read more »Kansas Farmers Dramatically and Profitably Pare Water for Irrigation
April 17th, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a report on how a much lower draw on Ogallala Aquifer has not hindered region’s giant farm economy. To save a dying aquifer – or at least their piece of it – a group of roughly 60 farmers in northwest Kansas decided on a self-imposed diet. The move a dozen years […]
Read more »South Texas Developers Make a Sales Pitch to Sell Groundwater. Will Laredo Buy It?
April 17th, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, a report on how Laredo has long sought a secondary water supply to supplement the Rio Grande. A development in Webb County could provide a solution—but one with a hefty price tag. The Walker family property at the intersection of I-35 and US-83 in Webb County is a rugged expanse of […]
Read more »Mexico To Send Water To Texas Farmers as US Treaty Threat Grows
April 12th, 2025
Via The Guardian, a report on how Mexico’s failure to keep up 81-year-old water-sharing treaty has sparked a diplomatic spat with the US: Mexico will make an immediate water delivery to Texas farmers to help make up its shortfall under a treaty that has strained US relations and prompted tariff threats by Donald Trump, said Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, […]
Read more »To Protect the Sea, the Kazakh Government Must Disclose Caspian Oil Agreements
April 12th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at efforts to protect the Caspian Sea: The fate of the Caspian Sea hangs in the balance. A vital and irreplaceable natural treasure, the world’s largest landlocked body of water is being plundered in secrecy, its future dictated by international oil and gas giants operating behind closed doors. This opaque […]
Read more »Big Tech’s New Data Centers Will Take Water From The World’s Driest Areas
April 11th, 2025
Via The Guardian, a report on how Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents: Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more, the non-profit investigatory organisation SourceMaterial and the Guardian have found. With Donald Trump pledging to support them, the three technology […]
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