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Q&A: Groundwater Loss On A Global Scale
July 30th, 2025
Via Western Water Notes, an interview on global groundwater loss and the alarming drying of Earth’s land surface: The trend plays out in arid regions across the globe. It goes like this. Rivers dry up and water supplies become more variable. Faced with scarce surface water supplies, cities, farms, and companies look to groundwater to […]
Read more »What Is Behind Gwadar’s Continued Water Woes?
July 28th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at how Pakistan’s thirsty port city is once again fighting for water, with no permanent solution in sight: In Gwadar, Pakistan’s multimillion-dollar port city, hundreds of women and children have been protesting water shortages since early June. They bring empty buckets and containers to their protest site at the Fish […]
Read more »Himalayan Water Disputes Awaken the Tensions and Promises of the UN Watercourses Convention
July 28th, 2025
Via , an article on how the current Himalayan water disputes have awakened the tensions and promises of the UN Watercourses Convention: Across the world, nations sharing transboundary rivers face persistent geopolitical risks over water allocation and weaponization. Nowhere, however, are these risks more pressing than on the foothills of the Himalayas. Two recent and […]
Read more »Caspian Sea Level Fallen So Much that Russia and Kazakhstan To Dredge a Channel to Offshore Wells
July 27th, 2025
The water level of the Caspian Sea has fallen to its lowest level in recorded history, restricting the ability of ships to pass through former channels, especially in the sea’s northern portions. In response, Russia and Kazakhstan have announced plans to dredge a channel through increasingly shallow waters to allow their ships to pass. Russia’s […]
Read more »The ‘Water Mafia’ Is Real—and It’s Draining Iran Dry
July 27th, 2025
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, commentary on Iran’s water crisis: U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a rare and pointed critique of the Iranian regime’s environmental corruption during a speech in Saudi Arabia on May 13. It was rare not only because this issue is often ignored, but because Trump himself is hardly known as an environmental […]
Read more »China’s Gigantic Hydropower Dam in Tibet: Green Energy or the “Weaponization” Of Water?
July 26th, 2025
Via Modern Diplomacy, analysis of how the project expected to become the world’s largest dam—surpassing the Three Gorges Dam—carries implications far beyond energy generation: As the world grapples with the challenges of climate change and a global transition to clean energy, China is moving forward with a highly ambitious and controversial megaproject: the Medog Hydropower […]
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