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The Panama Canal Averts A Crisis For Now—But At A Cost To Drinking Water
March 21st, 2024
Courtesy of Phys.org, an article on the Panama Canal and its impact on drinking water: The Panama Canal has avoided the worst of a shipping crunch that threatened to upend the global economy—but at a cost to marine life and the Latin American country’s supplies of drinking water. After imposing strict limits on vessel traffic […]
Read more »An Invisible Water Surcharge: Climate Warming Increases Crop Water Demand
March 21st, 2024
Via Phys.org, an article on a new study enumerating how climate warming increases crop water demand in the San Joaquin Valley: California’s San Joaquin Valley is home to some of the most fertile soil on Earth. Crops grown here are exported around the world. According to California Department of Food and Agriculture, more than 250 […]
Read more »Barren Fields and Empty Stomachs: Afghanistan’s Long, Punishing Drought
March 21st, 2024
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on the tragic humanitarian impact of Afghanistan’s long, punishing drought: In a country especially vulnerable to climate change, a drought has displaced entire villages and left millions of children malnourished. They awake in the mornings to find another family has left. Half of one village, the entirety […]
Read more »Vietnam Farmers Struggle for Fresh Water as Drought Brings Salination
March 21st, 2024
Via Terra Daily, a report on the impact of drought in Vietnam: Every day, farmer Nguyen Hoai Thuong prays in vain for rain to fall on the cracked dry earth of her garden in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta — the country’s “rice bowl” agricultural heartland. A blazing month-long heatwave has brought drought, parching the land in […]
Read more »Taps Run Dry in Africa’s Richest City
March 20th, 2024
Via VoA News, a look at South Africa’s water crisis: Residents of Africa’s richest city, Johannesburg, are experiencing a severe water shortage in the middle of a summer heat wave. The shortages, which have lasted nearly two weeks, have affected some 50% of Johannesburg Water’s supply area, officials said. The South African city has a […]
Read more »Can U.S and Mexico Secure Water Supplies in Shrinking Rio Grande?
March 20th, 2024
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at the need to change the 80-year-old water treaty between the U.S. and Mexico to accommodate the drying climate: Reservoirs sink to record lows. Farmers lament shortage of water for irrigation. Senior officials, buffeted by partisan disruption, haggle over the terms of new management plans. These scenes define […]
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