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The Water Brokers
May 4th, 2023
Courtesy of GRIST, a look at a small Nevada company which spent decades buying water and now – as the West dries up – is cashing out: For the first two decades of the 21st century, not even a once-in-a-millennium drought could deter real estate developers from building vast suburban tracts on the wild edges […]
Read more »Potential Solutions for Vietnam’s Water Scarce Delta
May 2nd, 2023
Via East Asia Forum, a look at potential solutions for the water-scarce Mekong Delta: The 21st century has seen a rapid increase in the number of countries in the Global South experiencing water scarcity. In the Mekong region, environment–development conflicts driven by climate change and upstream hydropower development jeopardise water supply in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD). […]
Read more »Europe’s Produce At Stake In Spain’s Water War
May 2nd, 2023
Via Terra Daily, an article on the impact of Spain’s water war on European food security: Spanish farmer Juan Francisco Abellaneda’s salads and watermelons fill the shelves of European supermarkets winter and summer. But maybe not for much longer.The tap that turned the arid semi-desert of southeastern Spain into Europe’s market garden may be about […]
Read more »In Arizona, Fresh Scrutiny of Saudi-Owned Farm’s Water Use
May 2nd, 2023
Via CityNews, a report on Arizona’s recent decision to rescind drilling permits for Fondomonte Arizona, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Almarai Co., to pump up to 3,000 gallons of water per minute to irrigate its forage crops: In rural Arizona’s La Paz County, on the state’s rugged border with California, the decision by a Saudi-owned […]
Read more »Is It a Lake, or a Battery? A New Kind of Hydropower Is Spreading Fast.
May 2nd, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at pumped storage: For a century, hydroelectric power has been synonymous with gigantic dams — feats of engineering that provide renewable energy but displace communities and destroy ecosystems. New research released Tuesday by Global Energy Monitor reveals a transformation underway in hydroelectric projects — using the same […]
Read more »Afghan Farmers: Helmand Province Should Receive Water Before Iran
April 30th, 2023
Via The Frontier Post, an article on the growing tension between Afghanistan and Iran over water in the Helmand River: Some farmers and residents of the province of Helmand urged the current government to avoid bringing up the topic of water rights with Iran at this time. According to them, the whole country, especially Helmand, […]
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