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Rio Grande Runs Dry In Albuquerque For First Time In 40 Years
July 23rd, 2022
Via the Washington Post, an article on the Rio Grande river which has run dry in Albuquerque for the first time in 40 years: A stretch of the Rio Grande near Albuquerque that supplies farmers with water and a habitat for an array of aquatic life is drying — an unsettling sighting of climate change’s effects […]
Read more »Big Water Pipelines, an Old Pursuit, Still Alluring in Drying U.S. West
July 22nd, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at how large-scale water engineering projects like the Los Angeles Aqueduct ushered in the modern era of the American West. More pipelines and water transfers have been proposed or are under construction in the drying region: As the region’s climate becomes drier, more pipelines are being proposed despite […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: The Imbalance of the Asian Water Tower
July 20th, 2022
Via Nature, an abstract on a new research paper on the Third Pole: The Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalayan system, named the Third Pole because it is the largest global store of frozen water after the polar regions, provides a reliable water supply to almost 2 billion people. Marked atmospheric warming has changed the balance of this so-called […]
Read more »Iran Arrests Several After Protests At Drying Lake
July 18th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on protests at Iran’s drying Lake Urmia: Iranian police have arrested several people for disturbing security after they protested the drying up of a lake once regarded as the Middle East’s largest, official media said Sunday. Lake Urmia, in the mountains of northwest Iran, began shrinking in 1995 due to […]
Read more »Iraq Asks Turkey To Release More Water
July 18th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on Iraq’s request to Turkey to release more water: Iraq on Saturday asked Ankara to increase the flow of water downstream along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, as both countries face droughts and tensions over resource management. Baghdad regularly complains that dams constructed in neighbouring countries impact its river levels. Water […]
Read more »New Afghan Dams Aim To Ease Water Crisis
July 17th, 2022
Via Ariana News, a report on three new dams to be built in Kandahar to ease the province’s water shortage crisis: Three new dams are being built in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar in a bid to ease an acute water shortage after years of drought. China’s Xinhua News Agency reported the dams are […]
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