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Alberta’s Brutal Water Reckoning
February 20th, 2024
Via The Tyee, a look at how – despite the province’s arid past – Alberta’s thirst for growth won out: “To a water expert, looking ahead is like the view from a locomotive, 10 seconds before the train wreck.” — The late scientist David Schindler on Alberta’s looming crisis Alberta’s water reckoning has begun in earnest. Snowpack […]
Read more »Japan’s Role in Healing the Aral Sea and Engaging Central Asia
February 20th, 2024
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at Japan’s role in healing the Aral Sea: Multiple international actors have become involved in helping Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan alleviate the devastating consequences of one of the worst human-made environmental disasters across the Central Asian region: the loss of the Aral Sea. One notable partner in these endeavors is […]
Read more »Mongolia’s Beijing-Financed Hydro-Electric Dams Threaten Lake Baikal, Russia Says
February 18th, 2024
Via Window on Eurasia, a report on Russia’s displeasure with Mongolia’s Beijing-financed hydro-electric dams that they claim threaten Lake Baikal: Mongolia’s decision to build hydro-electric dams to solve its domestic electricity shortage, a decision that Beijing has backed by financing the project, threatens transborder rivers flowing from Mongolia into Russia and even the survival of […]
Read more »Airlines Race Toward a Future of Powering Their Jets With Corn
February 17th, 2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at the water/energy/food nexus of airlines’ efforts to replace jet fuel with ethanol to fight global warming, a transition requiring lots of corn, and lots of water: VAST STRETCHES OF AMERICA are dominated by corn, nearly 100 million acres of it, stretching from Ohio to the Dakotas. What […]
Read more »Price of Oil: Iraq’s Drought Exacerbated by Oil Industry’s Thirst for Water
February 17th, 2024
Via OneWater, a sobering photographic look at how Iraq’s drought has been exacerbated by its oil industry’s thirst for water: Nahr Bin Umar, Iraq. A group of fishermen from Qarmat Ali collect the nets early in the mornings on the Shatt al-Arab river. They fish in this area every day and sell the fish for […]
Read more »Dozens of Colorado Farmers, Ranchers and One City offer to Cut Colorado River Water Use for $8.7M
February 15th, 2024
Via Colorado Sun, a look at a Colorado River conservation program which aims to keep water in the river system as years of prolonged drought and overuse have threatened the water supply for millions of people by paying cash to those who reduce their water use: Coloradans gunning to join this year’s effort to save […]
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