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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 […]
Read more »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 […]
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