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Lahaina Fire Prompts a Shift in Maui’s Long-Running Water Fights
August 22nd, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report how – after a fight over water on the day of the Lahaina fire – Hawaii’s Governor says the state has “tipped too far” in trying to preserve water: Hours before the wildfire became an inferno that wiped out the historic Hawaiian town of Lahaina, officials at […]
Read more »Feds Ease Up On Colorado River Restrictions – For Now
August 22nd, 2023
Via Grist, an article on how this year’s wet winter helped save the river from collapse, but a reckoning is on the horizon: The water shortage crisis on the Colorado River is improving, but it’s far from over. That was the message from the Biden administration on Tuesday, as officials announced they would loosen water restrictions on […]
Read more »Parched Egypt Struggles To Contain Water Loss
August 22nd, 2023
Via Terra Daily, a report on Egypt’s water crisis: At the foot of an 800-year-old Cairo mausoleum, weeds rise from a murky green pool — a sign of massive loss of clean water that often goes to waste instead of reaching Egyptian consumers.Beneath intricate Koranic inscriptions, the thick shrubbery crawls upwards from waist-deep water towards […]
Read more »Switzerland’s Water Diplomacy
August 22nd, 2023
Via SwissInfo, a look at what Switzerland is doing to prevent disputes over water: Water can be a source of conflict between states, but it can also encourage cooperation. Switzerland sees water diplomacy as a long-term, incremental strategy for peace. Will there be wars over water in the future? Dystopias evoke this as a possible scenario. […]
Read more »Texas’ Brazos River, Captive and Contaminated
August 20th, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how Dow-Freeport, the largest chemical plant complex in the Western Hemisphere, dominates — and pollutes — Texas’ Lower Brazos Watershed: One January day in 1971, Sharron Stewart stood with two friends on the banks of the Brazos River in Freeport, near where the 800-mile river empties into the Gulf […]
Read more »Drought Impacts Half of Mexicans
August 20th, 2023
Via 24 Horas, a report on Mexico’s water crisis: The water crisis is here to stay and it will only get worse if the consumption habits of industry, agriculture and the population do not turn around, while currently 49% of Mexicans face some condition of drought . This was explained by specialists consulted by 24 HOURS , who assured that factors such as climate change […]
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