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Overconsumption Gravely Threatens Water Security in the Binational Rio Grande-Bravo Basin
December 8th, 2025
Via Springer Nature, a new study reporting that overconsumption gravely threatens water security in the binational Rio Grande-Bravo basin: The Rio Grande-Bravo basin shared by the United States and Mexico is experiencing a severe water crisis demanding urgent attention. In recent decades, water storage reservoirs, aquifers, and annual streamflow volumes have been substantially depleted, leaving […]
Read more »Taliban Regime’s Damming of Transboundary Rivers
December 8th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on Afghanistan’s growing need to build dams for its water and power needs, and Pakistan’s opposition to dam building on the Kunar River and its tributaries is due to political rather than technical reasons: Afghanistan suffers from severe water and electricity shortages. This is partly because its geographic location and […]
Read more »Water Crisis in Iran Puts Pressure on Leadership to Find a Viable Solution and Address “Water Mafia”
December 8th, 2025
Via The Soufan Center, commentary on how Iran’s water crisis is pressuring the country’s leadership and bringing more visibility to Iran’s “Water Mafia”: The water crisis in Iran has escalated into a profound political and security problem with supply levels running alarmingly low. This acute emergency is the culmination of decades of flawed policy, overly […]
Read more »Europe’s Water Reserves Drying Up Due to Climate Breakdown
November 29th, 2025
Via The Guardian, a report on new scientific studies which find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications: Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to […]
Read more »Turkmenistan’s Drought Dries Reservoirs
November 26th, 2025
Two reservoirs in western Turkmenistan have fully dried up, according to satellite analysis published by Meteozhurnal, a specialist meteorological outlet. Mammetköl and Delili, small reservoirs in Balkan province fed by the low-water Atrak river, shrank steadily over the past year and had no remaining water by early summer. Meteozhurnal based its findings on time-series imagery […]
Read more »Lake Chad Basin Caught in Brutal Boko Haram-ISWAP Struggle
November 25th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, an article on the fight between Boko Haram and ISWAP for control of the Lake Chad islands: It was cold and quiet around 4am on 7 November, when James (last name withheld) shut the door and led his heavily pregnant wife and their two children, under the age of six, onto […]
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