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Trump Threatens Mexico With Tariffs Over Water
December 9th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a report on how drought has dried up Mexico’s water supply, much to the chagrin of Texas farmers—and Trump: Decades of tension between the United States and Mexico over shared water resources turned into an actual water-cum-trade war overnight. In a post on Truth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump made good on earlier […]
Read more »Trump Administration’s Threats to Shrink or Eliminate National Monuments Could Endanger Drinking Water for Millions
December 9th, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, commentary on a new Center for American Progress report which found 31 national monuments are the only conservation tool protecting 21,000 miles of rivers and streams that provide water for downstream communities: The 31 national monuments designated since the Clinton administration, which could be downsized as the Trump administration pushes to […]
Read more »Dry Iran Explores Buying Afghan Water
December 9th, 2025
As Iran faces a looming Day Zero scenario in its capital Tehran, where reservoirs are virtually empty, some officials are exploring options to purchase water from Afghanistan, as Radio Free Europe reports.
Read more »Violence Over Water Resources Reaches Record Levels
December 8th, 2025
Via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, an article on the growing evidence that climate change is worsening the severity of extreme floods and droughts, contributing to the global increase in water violence: On November 28, 2024, Russian missile attacks cut water and electricity to 280,000 people in the Rivne region of Ukraine. On the same day, thousands of […]
Read more »New Report Warns of Critical Climate Risks in MENA Region
December 8th, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, a look at growing water stress in the MENA region where the foundations of daily life, including farms, reservoirs and aquifers that feed and sustain millions, are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming: As global warming accelerates, about 480 million people in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula face […]
Read more »Another Flint? How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging A Water Crisis
December 8th, 2025
Via Rolling Stone, a report on how Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages: In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the […]
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