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How Arizona Squeezes Tribes for Water
July 30th, 2023
Courtesy of High Country News, a look at how Arizona goes to unusual lengths in water negotiations to extract restrictive concessions from tribes: The Dilkon Medical Center, a sprawling $128 million facility on the Navajo Nation in Arizona, was completed a year ago. With an emergency room, pharmacy and housing for more than 100 staff members, […]
Read more »The Colorado Provides Drinking Water to 40M People. Do They Know What Utah Does to It Upstream?
July 30th, 2023
Via Mother Jones, a report on the Colorado River and upstream use/energy-related pollution: From the water, the White River canyon was a scene worthy of Ansel Adams. Swallows darted in and out of mud houses packed on the underside of the soaring sandstone cliffs. A lone elk wandered the hillside, while sheep noshed along the water, […]
Read more »How Private Interests Benefit From Tribal Water Settlements
July 30th, 2023
Via High Country News, a look at how – when power players like mining and agriculture are involved – tribal nations, usually the senior-most water-rights holders, often must fight obstruction: First, the Santa Cruz River stopped flowing into the San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Then wells began to dry up across the reservation, […]
Read more »Condition Critical: Desertification Threatens To Turn Iran’s Future To Dust
July 29th, 2023
Via Radio Free Europe, an article on how water scarcity and desertification are making more and more territory unlivable in Iran, potentially resulting in devastating consequences: Temperatures in Iran are hitting record highs, rivers and lakes are drying up, and prolonged droughts are becoming the norm, highlighting a water crisis that is turning much of […]
Read more »Drought-Hit North Africa Turns to Purified Sea and Wastewater
July 29th, 2023
Via Terra Daily, a look at how drought-hit North Africa has turned to purified sea and wastewater: From Tunisia to Morocco, sun-baked North Africa has embarked on a building spree of plants that purify sea and wastewater as climate change intensifies droughts in the water-scarce region.Across the Maghreb region, which takes in parts of the […]
Read more »Vietnam’s Mekong Delta Is Sinking, But Innovations Offer Hope
July 28th, 2023
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a look at the threatened Mekong Delta: A ribbon of water runs alongside Ho Van Hong’s star-apple and durian trees, just wide enough for the farmer’s blue canoe to glide by. He scoops from the channel to water his orchard in the heart of the Mekong Delta. The grove has been […]
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