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The North American Water and Power Alliance: The Forgotten Project That Could Have Saved America From Drought
September 20th, 2024
Via the now discontinued BuzzFeed (but saved with web archive), a look at the North American Water and Power Alliance – an audacious proposal to divert water to parched western states that would have cost hundreds of billions of dollars and pissed off Canada. But what if it had worked? When the fire started on a […]
Read more »As Canadian River Shrivels, Northern Communities Call for a Highway
August 8th, 2024
Via Yale e360, a look at how – with the Mackenzie River too low for barge traffic – villages in the Northwest Territories are flying in food, fuel, and other essentials. A proposed highway could offer a lifeline as climate change further reduces flows, but the project faces big challenges in a warming Arctic. In […]
Read more »Alberta’s Brutal Water Reckoning
February 20th, 2024
Via The Tyee, a look at how – despite the province’s arid past – Alberta’s thirst for growth won out: “To a water expert, looking ahead is like the view from a locomotive, 10 seconds before the train wreck.” — The late scientist David Schindler on Alberta’s looming crisis Alberta’s water reckoning has begun in earnest. Snowpack […]
Read more »Simmering Global Water Tension As Hot, Dry Summer Looms
May 25th, 2023
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, some hotspots for water tension as a hot, dry summer looms: Sun-baked fields and dusty reservoirs dot the landscape of southern Spain. Travel east in the Mediterranean and Tunisia is cutting urban water service at night to conserve supplies amid a harsh, multi-year drought. In the Horn of Africa, meanwhile, […]
Read more »Drought On Canadian Prairies
October 12th, 2022
Via CBC, a report on southwest Saskatchewan’s dry autumn: Farmers and other producers in southwest Saskatchewan are experiencing dry fall weather. The lack of rain in some areas is causing “moderate to severe on-site water shortages,” according to the latest provincial crop report. “It’s just setting us up again for a questionable start for next spring,” […]
Read more »Canada Dry: Drought Takes Tolls On Canada’s Normally ‘Wet Coast’
October 10th, 2022
Via Global News, a report on how drought is taking its toll on Canada’s normally “wet” coast: By this time of year, the so-called ‘wet coast’ of Canada should be blustery, wet and cold — some would even say miserable. Vancouver should be living up to its reputation as “Raincouver.” Fall colours, along with the […]
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