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The Thirsty Dragon: Climate Change & Water Scarcity Threatens China’s Rice Bowl
August 6th, 2023
Via East Asia Forum, an article on the impact that climate change is having upon China’s agricultural sector: Downpours in late May 2023 in northern China flooded wheat fields, stirring both domestic and international concern about China’s wheat supply and the potential impacts on food security. Chinese officials described the flooding as ‘the most destructive rain event’ for wheat […]
Read more »No Water, No Workers, No Chips
August 4th, 2023
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how TSMC and other tech giants need to take climate and water scarcity into account or risk seeing their investments go up in smoke: All roads lead to Phoenix. On the gravy train of greenfield investment riding on the back of Inflation Reduction Act legislative incentives in the United […]
Read more »Minnesota Tribe Sets Enforceable Rules To Safeguard Wild Rice and Water Supply
August 4th, 2023
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at how one Minnesota Tribe has set aside ineffective voluntary pollution prevention practices for mandatory regulation: It’s been centuries since the White Earth Band migrated west across North America, following an ancestral prophecy to go where “food grows on water.” One of seven Ojibwe bands in Minnesota, White […]
Read more »Will The U.S. Run Out of Water?
August 3rd, 2023
Via LiveScience, commentary on U.S. water security : Within the next 50 years, many of the freshwater basins in the United States could struggle to meet the population’s water demands. Climate change is causing severe droughts and greater aridity — extreme dryness that can affect humans and the natural systems they depend on, especially in western states. Greater aridity […]
Read more »Five Steps Needed To Fix the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
August 3rd, 2023
Via Phys.org, a look at the Murray-Darling Basin plan: The Murray Darling Basin Plan is an historic deal between state and federal governments to save Australia’s most important river system. The A$13 billion plan, inked over a decade ago, was supposed to rein in the water extracted by farmers and communities, and make sure the […]
Read more »Water Scarcity: A Global Economic Threat With China and India Most At Risk
August 3rd, 2023
Via CNBC, a look at water as a global economic threat: Researchers say that large Asian economies like India and China will be the most affected from water shortages. Agriculture, manufacturing, and the transition toward renewable energy will likely be the sectors most affected by water shortages. Water scarcity must not be viewed as a […]
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