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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 […]
Read more »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 […]
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