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What Do The Los Angeles Fires Tell Us About The Coming Water Wars?
January 16th, 2025
Via The Guardian, commentary on whether water will soon be a marketable commodity or a priceless public good There’s a scene in the film Mad Max: Fury Road where the evil ruler Immortan Joe, gazing down from a cliff upon his parched, emaciated subjects, pushes two levers and water gushes from three gigantic sluices. The wretched masses […]
Read more »Mississippi Delta Could Vanish Soon, Scientists Warn
January 12th, 2025
Via Newsweek, an alarming report on the rapid deterioration of the Mississippi Delta because of rising sea levels: The Mississippi River’s Bird’s Foot Delta, a vital ecological and economic region, faces rapid deterioration because of rising sea levels, sediment shortages and invasive species. Louisiana State University (LSU) and Tulane researchers, backed by a $22 million federal […]
Read more »To Save the Great Salt Lake, Farmers Will Have to Grow Less Alfalfa
January 11th, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, an article on new research which found that alfalfa uses the vast majority of agricultural water that would otherwise replenish the largest saline lake in the nation: The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, and new research published Tuesday reports that saving it requires reducing the amount of farmland that is irrigated […]
Read more »Preventing Conflicts over Transboundary Dams
January 11th, 2025
Via International Water Power and Dam Construction, an article on how the planning, development, and management of dams in transboundary basins needs to be governed in an effective and cooperative manner to ensure limited negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts, and the mitigation of any potential conflict. The construction of dams within transboundary basins can lead […]
Read more »Climate Change—and Complacency—Is Drying Up the Caspian Sea
January 11th, 2025
Via World Politics Review, a look at how climate change – and complacency – is drying up the Caspian Sea: The Caspian Sea is a geographical marvel and a critical resource for the five countries—Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan—that border it. But the future of the world’s largest enclosed inland body of water is […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: India’s Response to World’s Largest Dam in China Faces Local Opposition
January 9th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at India’s response to world’s largest dam in China: Strong protests have erupted in the Indian border state of Arunachal Pradesh against a proposed “multi-purpose project” envisioned as the country’s response to China’s plan to construct the world’s largest dam in Tibet on the same river. India plans to build […]
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