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Thailand’s EV Push May Worsen Water Shortages In The East
December 28th, 2022
Via Eco Business, a look at how the arrival of Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD in Rayong is expected to increase the strain on the province’s water supplies: Chinese conglomerate BYD will start production of its first electric vehicles (EV) in Southeast Asia in around 2024. The new facility is expected to produce 150,000 vehicles per year, […]
Read more »The Water Wranglers of the West Struggling to Save The Colorado River
December 27th, 2022
Courtesy of The New Yorker, an article on the farmers, bureaucrats, and water negotiators fighting over the future of the drought-stricken Southwest: In mid-December, I drove to Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, to see its infamous bathtub ring. The bathtub, in this metaphor, is Lake Mead, on the border between Nevada and Arizona; the […]
Read more »Less Water, Fewer Farmers: The Future of Agriculture on the Ogallala Aquifer
December 27th, 2022
Via NPR, a report on increasingly dim future of farming in the U.S. Midwest: It’s harvest season in Yuma, Colorado, which means Ruben Richardson is in the cab of his combine, cutting corn. That’s where you’ll find him from sun-up to sun down for a solid month in mid-autumn because that’s how long it takes […]
Read more »Arizona Is in a Race to the Bottom of Its Water Wells, With Saudi Arabia’s Help
December 27th, 2022
Courtesy of the New York Times, commentary on the role played by private companies in Arizona’s worrying water crisis: Arizona’s water is running worryingly low. Amid the worst drought in more than a millennium, which has left communities across the state with barren wells, the state is depleting what remains of its precious groundwater. Much of […]
Read more »Amid Drought, Arizona Contemplates Piping In Water From Mexico
December 23rd, 2022
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a look at how Arizona – amidst drought – is considering piping in water from Mexico: Arizona’s newly expanded water finance board had met only three times. The state authority had no director. Nor had it made a public call for water projects to boost Arizona’s dwindling water supplies from the Colorado River. But […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Dam Plans Threaten China’s Migratory Bird Haven
December 23rd, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on the impact that a planned Chinese dam may have upon a key migratory bird resource: Spooked by a historic drought, local authorities in China have renewed controversial plans to dam the country’s biggest freshwater lake. But environmentalists warn damming Poyang Lake, a winter stopover for over half a million […]
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