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What Will Spain Look Like When It Runs Out Of Water? Barcelona Is Giving Us A Glimpse
February 26th, 2024
Via The Guardian, commentary on what Spain may look like when it runs out of water? Walking through Barcelona these days, you can’t miss the signs and billboards picturing a red plastic bucket and the message “Water doesn’t fall from the sky” (l’aigua no cau del cel in Catalan). The ads are part of a campaign to get […]
Read more »One of the World’s Biggest Cities May be Just Months Away From Running Out of Water
February 26th, 2024
Via CNN, a report that Mexico City may be just months away from running out of water: Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it comes on for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, barely enough to fill a couple of buckets. Then nothing for many days. […]
Read more »Humans Killed Cataract Canyon. It Brought Itself Back to Life
February 26th, 2024
Courtesy of Rolling Stone, a look at how – after damming the Colorado River wiped out a magnificent stretch of rapids for half a century – they are now, incredibly, returning — on their own: THE RIVER CHURNS a muddy brown as it carries us through towering vermilion rock walls toward the roar of Gypsum Canyon […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India, Pakistan, and the Politics of the Indus River
February 23rd, 2024
Via Harvard’s Mittal South Asia Institute, commentary on the politics of the Indus River: The Mittal Institute’s Syed Babar Ali Fellow, Muhammad Imran Mehsud comes to Cambridge from Hazara University Mansehra, Pakistan, where he is an Assistant Professor of International Relations. He is an expert on South Asian transboundary hydropolitics and his research project at the […]
Read more »On The Colorado River, There Are No Simple Disputes
February 23rd, 2024
Via J. Fleck’s Inkstain, commentary on the foundational disputes that are holding up a new agreement on the Colorado River: One of the commentors to our January 19th, 2024, blog post titled “Are We headed for the First Colorado River Compact Tripwire?” – John C. (who, by-the-way runs a very talented water resources engineering firm) […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Water Revolution Powered by $250B Over Past Decade
February 23rd, 2024
Courtesy of Smart Water Magazine, a look at India’s water revolution which has been powered by a $250B investment in the past decade: India’s Union Cabinet Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat disclosed a US$ 250 billion investment in the country’s water sector over the past decade. Various sectors like irrigation, river purification, drinking water, and groundwater recharge […]
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