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The Parched Tiger: India Stares at Summer Water Crisis As Reservoir Levels Slide
March 20th, 2024
Via Reuters, an article on India’s water crisis: India’s main reservoirs have hit their lowest March levels in five years, government data showed, indicating a possible squeeze on drinking water and power availability this summer. In major centres such as India’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Bengaluru, home to firms like Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, water supply […]
Read more »Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Agree to Install Transboundary Water Meters
March 20th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at how water – while most often characterized as a potential spark for conflict in Central Asia – is, at the same time, an opportunity for cooperation: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have agreed to install meters in each other’s territory to monitor water consumption and share data online with each other. […]
Read more »Failing Water System Is South Africa’s Next Crisis
March 20th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on Johannesburg’s water crisis: Large swath of Johannesburg left without water for 11 days Africa’s biggest bulk water company unable to meet demand South Africa is facing the prospect of a breakdown in the water supply to its industrial heartland and most-populated region, adding to the woes of an economy battered […]
Read more »Risks Ease For Colorado River Reservoirs After Wet Winter, but Long-Term Challenges Loom
March 19th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, an article on the impact that a wet winter has had upon the Colorado River: After a wet year and a push to conserve water in the Southwest, federal officials say the risk of the Colorado River’s reservoirs declining to critically low levels has substantially eased for the next […]
Read more »US Threat Assessment: Water A National Security Risk, For Iran in Particular
March 16th, 2024
In their annual threat assessment, US spy agencies note climate, water, food stress abroad as national security risks, calling out Iran’s water shortages in particular: The Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community reports: “The accelerating effects of climate change are placing more of the world’s population, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, at […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Running Dry
March 16th, 2024
Via CNN, a look at India’s ‘Silicon Valley’ which is running dry as residents urged to take fewer showers and use disposable cutlery: The water tanker arrives once every two weeks, its 1,000 liters expected to serve hundreds of people in this suburb of India’s most high-tech metropolis, where women carrying empty buckets come clamoring to quench their […]
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