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Squeezing Communities Dry: Water Grabbing By The Global Food Industry
September 23rd, 2023
Via GRAIN, a look at how pension fund managers, private equity firms and other financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops, like […]
Read more »Drought Puts Morocco’s Water Infrastructure Projects Into Overdrive
August 27th, 2023
Via Al Monitor, a report on Morocco’s rising budget for water infrastructure as desalination and dam projects advance amid droughts and increasing international partnerships: Repeated droughts and dwindling water resources have pushed Moroccan authorities into emergency mode. As the country grapples with its worst drought in 40 years, the building of critical water infrastructure has emerged […]
Read more »Drought-Hit North Africa Turns to Purified Sea and Wastewater
July 29th, 2023
Via Terra Daily, a look at how drought-hit North Africa has turned to purified sea and wastewater: From Tunisia to Morocco, sun-baked North Africa has embarked on a building spree of plants that purify sea and wastewater as climate change intensifies droughts in the water-scarce region.Across the Maghreb region, which takes in parts of the […]
Read more »After a Dry Spring, Northwest Africa Braces for Disruptive Crop Failures
May 27th, 2023
Courtesy of RANE Worldview, analysis of how – after a dry Spring – Northwest Africa braces for disruptive crop failures: As the summer harvest season begins in agriculture-dependent North Africa, severe drought will lead to crop failures that will increase risks of political uncertainty, social unrest and economic instability. Northwest Africa’s Maghreb region, which includes Morocco, […]
Read more »Morocco Boosts Funding, Ambitions for 30-Year Water Plan
May 17th, 2023
According to the World Bank, nearly 88 percent of water in Morocco, one of the world’s most water-scarce countries, is used for agriculture. By 2050, without significant change, water availability is projected to fall, further straining the drinking water supply for the nation’s 37 million residents. In 2020, the country announced a 30-year National Water […]
Read more »‘Living On The Edge’: Middle East At Risk of Climate-Induced Food, Water Scarcity
November 4th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on a new Greenpeace study focused on the Middle East’s climate risks: The Middle East is at high risk of water and food scarcity as well as severe heat waves as a result of climate change, said a Greenpeace study released Wednesday. Published only days ahead of the UN climate […]
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