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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 […]
Read more »Trump’s Denial of Mexico’s Colorado River Request Sparks Concerns Over Future Water Negotiations
April 5th, 2025
Via The Hill, an article on the Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to deny a delivery of water to Mexico: The Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to deny a delivery of water to Mexico is raising alarm among experts, who fear it could jeopardize future cross-border negotiations in an increasingly thirsty region. The refusal, which marked the first such rejection in […]
Read more »Earth’s Soil Is Drying Up. It Could Be Irreversible.
April 3rd, 2025
Via the Washington Post, a look at how losses in soil moisture already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans. But new research shows how the declines are contributing to sea-level rise more than previously thought. The amount of water stored on lands across Earth’s continents has declined at such […]
Read more »The Gorge Between China and India on Hydropolitics
April 2nd, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on how miscommunication and misunderstood geography are confounding discussions about China’s planned dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo gorge: On Christmas Eve 2024, the Chinese government announced that it had approved the world’s largest – and, at $137 billion, most expensive – hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in the Eastern Himalaya, […]
Read more »Data Centers a Small, But Growing Factor in Arizona’s Water Budget
April 2nd, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a report on the water footprint of Arizona’s growing data center industry: It was supposed to be called Cipriani, a master planned community with more than 9,700 homes at the western fringe of this sprawling desert city in central Arizona. Plans have changed. One regional growth industry – housing – is […]
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