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Forget Tariffs, Trump May Target the Great Lakes and Canada’s Freshwater Next
March 12th, 2025
Via The Financial Post, a report on how – with parts of the U.S. facing chronic drought – the U.S. president has reportedly threatened to tear up joint agreements regulating the natural wonders: Thomas Kierans was stopped by a reporter in St. John’s, Nfld., on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Regarded around town as […]
Read more »Trump: ‘Large Faucet’ Can Divert Canadian Water To California
January 3rd, 2025
Via the Canadian Press, commentary on President Trump’s September claim that a ‘large faucet’ can divert Canadian water to California: Former American president and current Republican nominee Donald Trump was asked earlier this month by a news reporter what he would do to help alleviate California’s natural disasters and other water woes. Trump responded saying […]
Read more »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, […]
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