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Can Filtering Seawater Quench A Thirsty World?
September 9th, 2025
Via the Washington Post, a look at how desalination is spreading beyond the wealthy Persian Gulf to poorer nations sapped by water shortages, like Morocco, that see it as a lifeline: The drought has held its grip for seven years and counting. Scorched vegetation crinkles underfoot. The color has drained almost entirely from Morocco’s agricultural […]
Read more »The Promise and Peril of Ethiopia’s New Mega Dam
September 8th, 2025
Via The Economist, a report on the potential regional impact of the GERD: WHEN ETHIOPIA inaugurates the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile on September 9th, it will be Africa’s largest hydropower source (see map). But to Ethiopians, millions of whom helped pay for it by buying shares, it is far more than […]
Read more »Ethiopia ‘Outfoxes Egypt’ over the Nile’s Waters with its Mighty Dam
September 8th, 2025
Via BBC, commentary on Ethiopia’s official inauguration of the Grand Renaissance Dam: After outfoxing Egypt on the diplomatic stage for more than a decade, Ethiopia is set to officially inaugurate one of the world’s biggest dams on a tributary of the River Nile, burying a colonial-era treaty that saw the UK guarantee the North African […]
Read more »Humanity Is Rapidly Depleting Water and Much of the World Is Getting Drier
September 7th, 2025
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, a look at how much of the world is getting drier: New research based on 22 years of satellite data shows vast areas of the world are losing fresh water and getting drier. These regions include much of the American West, Mexico, Central America and the Middle East. The […]
Read more »Indus Waters Treaty: From Cooperative Vision to Calculated Confrontation
September 4th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at how – instead of believing that strategic patience would breed stability – the Modi government’s strategic escalation has made Indus water flows a tool of coercive diplomacy: The Indus Waters Treaty, once described as a treaty that withstood three wars between India and Pakistan, is receiving much flak after […]
Read more »Mexico Will Not Meet Its Water Treaty Commitments To U.S. By October
September 3rd, 2025
Via TRT Global, a report on why Mexico will not meet its water treaty commitments to the US by October 24: It’s a deadline that is difficult to meet, and only an act of God could help Mexico. By October 24 this year, the North American country is required to share approximately 1 billion cubic […]
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