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A Colorado City Has Been Battling for Decades to Use Its Own Water
September 5th, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how lawsuits, protests and fierce disputes over who controls water in the parched American West have held up a crucial pipeline: Jack Ethredge could see the future. It was 1985, and Mr. Ethredge, then the city manager of Thornton, Colo., understood that sooner or later, the […]
Read more »World’s Highest Navigable Lake Is Drying Out
September 4th, 2023
Via CNN, a report on Lake Titicaca, parts of which have dried out due to falling water levels: Water levels at Lake Titicaca – the highest navigable lake in the world and South America’s largest – are dropping precipitously after an unprecedented winter heat wave. The shocking decline is affecting tourism, fishing and agriculture, which locals rely […]
Read more »Chilean Town Withers in Free Market for Water
September 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how water in Chile was redirected in order to maximize its highest economic use, to the detriment of local communities: During the past four decades here in Quillagua, a town in the record books as the driest place on earth, residents have sometimes seen glimpses of […]
Read more »Big Farms and Flawless Fries Are Gulping Water in the Land of 10,000 Lakes
September 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how Minnesota farmers cranked up their wells in a drought, blowing through state limits to grow thirsty crops such as corn, soybeans and perfect, fry-friendly potatoes: THE DROUGHT THAT GRIPPED MINNESOTA in the summer of 2021 was one of the worst on record. Day after day a […]
Read more »Five U.S. Cities One Natural Disaster Away From A Catastrophic Water Crisis
September 2nd, 2023
Via CNN, a look at five (5) U.S. cities that could be one natural disaster away from a catastrophic water crisis: When torrential rainfall in August 2022 pushed the Pearl River in Mississippi to surge well beyond its banks, floodwaters spilled into the suburbs of Jackson and led an already-hobbled water treatment plant to fail. It […]
Read more »Climate Change and Drought Fuels Fresh Community Clashes in Somalia
September 2nd, 2023
Via The Africa Report, a look at the central Somali state of Galmudug which is at the epicentre of climate-induced upheaval in the Horn of Africa where water scarcity threatens herders and villages: The pastoral community of central Somalia’s Galmudug state is getting pulled ever deeper into a complex web of conflict as a result […]
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