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New Report Warns of Critical Climate Risks in MENA Region
December 8th, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, a look at growing water stress in the MENA region where the foundations of daily life, including farms, reservoirs and aquifers that feed and sustain millions, are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming: As global warming accelerates, about 480 million people in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula face […]
Read more »Another Flint? How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging A Water Crisis
December 8th, 2025
Via Rolling Stone, a report on how Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages: In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the […]
Read more »Overconsumption Gravely Threatens Water Security in the Binational Rio Grande-Bravo Basin
December 8th, 2025
Via Springer Nature, a new study reporting that overconsumption gravely threatens water security in the binational Rio Grande-Bravo basin: The Rio Grande-Bravo basin shared by the United States and Mexico is experiencing a severe water crisis demanding urgent attention. In recent decades, water storage reservoirs, aquifers, and annual streamflow volumes have been substantially depleted, leaving […]
Read more »Taliban Regime’s Damming of Transboundary Rivers
December 8th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on Afghanistan’s growing need to build dams for its water and power needs, and Pakistan’s opposition to dam building on the Kunar River and its tributaries is due to political rather than technical reasons: Afghanistan suffers from severe water and electricity shortages. This is partly because its geographic location and […]
Read more »Water Crisis in Iran Puts Pressure on Leadership to Find a Viable Solution and Address “Water Mafia”
December 8th, 2025
Via The Soufan Center, commentary on how Iran’s water crisis is pressuring the country’s leadership and bringing more visibility to Iran’s “Water Mafia”: The water crisis in Iran has escalated into a profound political and security problem with supply levels running alarmingly low. This acute emergency is the culmination of decades of flawed policy, overly […]
Read more »Turkmenistan’s Drought Dries Reservoirs
November 26th, 2025
Two reservoirs in western Turkmenistan have fully dried up, according to satellite analysis published by Meteozhurnal, a specialist meteorological outlet. Mammetköl and Delili, small reservoirs in Balkan province fed by the low-water Atrak river, shrank steadily over the past year and had no remaining water by early summer. Meteozhurnal based its findings on time-series imagery […]
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