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Brussels Warns of Water Conflict Danger in EU
March 14th, 2024
Via Modern Diplomacy, a report on how water scarcity risks sparking conflict among European Union countries unprepared for a warming world: Water scarcity risks sparking conflict among European Union countries unprepared for a warming world, the bloc’s executive will warn next week, according to a leaked document obtained by POLITICO. The stark message is part […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Expands Rural Water Coverage
March 14th, 2024
Via ECNS.com, a report on Chinese efforts to expand water supplies into remote areas: With 90 percent of its rural population already having access to tap water, China will strive to ensure such safe drinking water reaches one-fifth of the remaining rural residents this year, even though most of them live in sparsely-populated areas where […]
Read more »Cambodia to Divert Mekong Trade via China-Built Canal, Vexing Vietnam
March 13th, 2024
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on a planned Phnom Penh-coast link raises alarms amid regional influence tussle: From his house on the banks of the Mekong River, an hour from Phnom Penh, Mao Sarin can watch ships laden with containers chug by on their way to Vietnam and the giant river delta. If the […]
Read more »Citizen Scientists Chronicling A Neglected But Vital Mexican River
March 9th, 2024
Via MIT Technology Review, an article on volunteer efforts to document the life that remains—and still thrives—in a challenged urban river in Monterrey: The city of Monterrey in northeastern Mexico is an industrial powerhouse that has rapidly devoured green space to make room for its 5.3 million people. The Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range around […]
Read more »As Colorado River Shrinks, States Continue To Argue Over Cuts
March 9th, 2024
Via The Land Desk, a look at how states continue to tussle over a shrinking Colorado River: The two groups of Colorado River watershed states — the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin — have each come up with a respective preliminary plan for how to deal with a shrinking supply of water in the […]
Read more »AI Is Taking Water From The Desert
March 8th, 2024
Courtesy of The Atlantic, commentary on the environmental impact of new data centers and whether the Earth can sustain them? One scorching day this past September, I made the dangerous decision to try to circumnavigate some data centers. The ones I chose sit between a regional airport and some farm fields in Goodyear, Arizona, half an […]
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