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Parched Politics: Iran’s Water Scarcity and the Rising Wave of Discontent
July 12th, 2023
Via Global Policy Journal, commentary on the potential for Iran’s water issues to mobilize a new wave of activism in Iran: Water has long shaped landscapes and civilizations. In the face of water scarcity, escalating concerns regarding the availability of this resource are forming new pathways for political change in the Middle East. With its […]
Read more »Tracing Mining’s Threat to U.S. Waters
July 12th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at mining’s threat to U.S. waters: In the mountain streams of southern British Columbia and northern Montana, a rugged part of the world, fish with misshapen skulls and twisted spines have been caught over the years. Many scientists attribute the malformed creatures and declines in certain fish […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India Could Reduce Groundwater Depletion By Reclaiming Wastewater
July 12th, 2023
Via The Third Pole, a look at how – by effectively treating and reusing wastewater – India could reduce/quit its dependency on fast-depleting groundwaters for households and industry: On 21 April, during a high-level committee meeting on the rejuvenation of the Yamuna river, VK Saxena made a plea to his city: New Delhi must ramp up […]
Read more »Iraq’s Worsening Water Crisis
July 12th, 2023
Via MSN, a look at how how drought, climate change, mismanagement and oil production have all led to water scarcity in Iraq: When many thousands of Iraqis turn on their taps “nothing comes out”, said Hayder Indhar for Phys.org. So dire is the country’s water crisis – 7 million of its citizens have reduced access to […]
Read more »Thirsty Uruguayans Blast Google’s Plan To Exploit Water Supply
July 11th, 2023
Via The Guardian, an article on Uruguay’s water crisis: A plan to build a Google data centre that will use millions of litres of water a day has sparked anger in Uruguay, which is suffering its worst drought in 74 years. Water shortages are so severe in the country that a state of emergency has been […]
Read more »Scientists Warned of a Salton Sea Disaster. No One Listened.
July 9th, 2023
Via Undark, a detailed look at the Salton Sea, a little-known health and environmental tragedy: ON THE AFTERNOON OF Oct. 6, 2022, a massive dust storm rose in the drought-parched Sonoran Desert just southeast of California’s Salton Sea. Wind, gusting at more than 60 miles per hour, whipped the desert floor into a vaulting curtain of […]
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