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Chile’s Lithium Boom Promises Jobs and Money – But Threatens A Critical Water Source
March 26th, 2025
Via Grist, a report on the Atacama Desert – a major source of lithium for EV batteries – but one that, as global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are racing to protect already scarce water supplies and their way of life: In the main square of Peine, a village of low houses and […]
Read more »Taking Over From The Inside: China’s Growing Reach Into Local Waters
August 4th, 2024
Via New European, a look at how China – the superpower of seafood – dominates more than just the high seas: On March 14, 2016, in the squid grounds off the coast of Patagonia, a rusty Chinese squid jigger called the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 10 was fishing illegally in Argentina’s national waters. Spotted by […]
Read more »‘Water Grabs’ Pose Big Threat to Farmers Amid Water Crises In South America
June 25th, 2024
Via Mongabay, a report on ‘water grabs’ posing a big threat to farmers amid water crises in South America: A new report by shows how investors and agribusiness are taking control of water in Latin America by purchasing rights to land or water to secure access and grow water-intensive crops, such as avocados. The researchers […]
Read more »Chile’s Lithium Dreams Raise Water Concerns In Its Desert
June 8th, 2024
Via Energy Daily, a look at how Chile’s lithium dreams raise water concerns in the desert As night falls in Chile’s Atacama desert, the world’s driest, a drilling machine extracts brine to measure levels of lithium — a crucial mineral for the global switch to cleaner energy, but harmful in its own way. Chile is […]
Read more »Drought and Unequal Water Rights Threaten Family Farms in Chile
April 30th, 2024
Via IPS News, an article on how rural farmers in Chile are facing a combination of climate change-induced mega droughts, and water policies that make access unaffordable and a State that either doesn’t want to or dares not intervene in the water market means family enterprises are dying out: Lack of water threatens the very […]
Read more »Groundwater Levels Around the World Are Dropping Quickly, Often at Accelerating Rates
January 28th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, highlights of a starting report showing rapid declines in groundwater are most common in aquifers under croplands in drier regions, including California: Groundwater supplies are dwindling in aquifers around the world, a groundbreaking new study found, with the rates of decline accelerating over the past four decades in nearly a third […]
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