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A Thirsty New Tesla Factory Comes To a Parched Corner of Mexico
June 27th, 2023
Via Rest of World, a look at a thirsty new Tesla factory coming to a parched corner of Mexico: When the taps started to run dry in March 2022, Blanca Guzmán thought she was prepared. Monterrey, in northern Mexico, was in a state of emergency due to a drought more severe than in previous years, […]
Read more »Italy’s Parched Po Valley: The Vanishing Breadbasket
June 27th, 2023
Courtesy of The Dial, an article on Italy’s Po Valley, which is rapidly drying up and threatening the nation’s traditional breadbasket: In 2022, a number of sunken curiosities began to emerge from the Po River, which runs from the French-Italian Alps and carves eastward across northern Italy, through Turin, just south of Milan and Bergamo, […]
Read more »Solar Is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way
June 26th, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a report on how utility-scale solar farms – which are spreading rapidly across the desert Southwest – are stressing the region’s already overtaxed groundwater and communities are beginning to push back: Solar farms stretch out mile after mile along Interstate 10 around Palm Springs, creating one of the densest areas of […]
Read more »920 Million People Could Face Conflict Over The World’s Rivers by 2050
June 26th, 2023
Via The Conversation, a report that 920 million people could face conflict over the world’s rivers by 2050: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project on the Nile River started operating in February 2022. It reinforced tensions between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. The three countries rely most heavily on the Nile’s water. Sudan and Egypt consider the US$4.6 billion […]
Read more »Volvic On Front Line of France’s New Water Fears
June 26th, 2023
Via Terra Daily, an article on rising water tension in France: The public fountains in Volvic, the home of one of the world’s most famous mineral waters, have been turned off.Just down the road from the bottling factory at the foot of the old volcanic hills of central France, streams once powerful enough to drive […]
Read more »Its Promised Land Drying, Mormon Church Works To Save The Great Salt Lake
June 25th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on how the Mormon Church is activating to save the Great Salt Lake: The valley here was shades of brown, its vast saline lake shimmering, when Brigham Young first surveyed the landscape in 1847 and recognized a place he had seen in a vision: a spot to make the […]
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