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A Water Strategy for the Parched West
June 30th, 2022
Via The Conversation, a report on the idea of having cities pay farmers to install more efficient irrigation systems as a way of helping water availability in the parched West: “Are you going to run out of water?” is the first question people ask when they find out I’m from Arizona. The answer is that some […]
Read more »Is Eastern Africa’s Drought The Worst in Recent History? Are Worse Yet To Come?
June 26th, 2022
Via The Conversation, an article on the drought in eastern Africa: Large areas of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are currently in the grip of a severe drought. An estimated 16.7 million people face acute food insecurity. That’s more than the combined populations of Austria and Switzerland. Four consecutive rainy seasons have now failed since late 2020, a […]
Read more »Mismanagement of Water Resources: Root of Pakistan’s Drought
June 25th, 2022
Via The Third Pole, commentary on Pakistan’s water scarcity crisis: More than 80% of the population in Pakistan faces ‘severe water scarcity’. Without change, this is projected to increase. With the water crisis looming over the country, Umer Karim, a development sector professional, sat down with The Third Pole. Karim has been working in the field of […]
Read more »The Vanishing Rio Grande
June 25th, 2022
Via Yale e360, a report on the Rio Grande, which has long been impacted by withdrawals for agriculture and other uses, is now struggling with rising temperatures and an unprecedented drought: Hiking through the emerald green canopy of the bosque, or riverside cottonwood forest, near downtown Albuquerque, Tricia Snyder, an advocate for WildEarth Guardians, believes zero […]
Read more »As Colorado River Crisis Grows, An Urgent Call For Western states To ‘Act Now’
June 21st, 2022
Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on how – as the water crisis worsens on the Colorado River – an urgent call for Western states to ‘act now’ has been made: With the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs continuing to drop to new lows, the federal government has taken the unprecedented step of telling the seven […]
Read more »Droughts and Societal Change: Impact of Drought On Emergence of Islam In Late Antique Arabia
June 20th, 2022
Via the Daily Mail, an article on a new report published by Science that examines the impact that extreme drought on the Arabian peninsula had upon the rise of Islam in the seventh century: For nearly 300 years, the Himyarite kingdom was the dominant power in ancient Arabia. Its economy, based on agriculture and foreign […]
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