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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 […]
Read more »‘Bad Days Await’: Istanbul Dams Run Low In Summer Heat
September 1st, 2023
Via Terra Daily, a report on Istanbul’s growing water scarcity crisis: The bank of screens in Ismail Aydin’s Istanbul water management system control room flashes a worrying number: 29.7 percent.That is the capacity level to which Istanbul’s water reservoirs have dropped after another steamy summer put Turkey’s largest city on the edge of a potential […]
Read more »Water Scarcity Could Help Nations Build Meaningful Relations With Iran
August 31st, 2023
Via EuroNews, commentary on how water scarcity could help Brussels build meaningful relations with Tehran: The bigger picture that the EU needs to consider if it wants to devise an effective and comprehensive strategy towards Iran is one of a country facing a fundamental political, economic, environmental, societal, and demographic crisis, Cornelius Adebahr writes. July […]
Read more »Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan Conclude GERD Negotiations Without Any Significant Progress
August 30th, 2023
Via the Addis Standard, a report that Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan concluded their recent GERD negotiations without any significant progress: Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have wrapped up two days of tripartite negotiation on the first filling and annual operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Monday, agreeing to continue the negotiation in September […]
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