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Senegal Launches Contested Water Desalination Scheme
June 1st, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on Senegal’s controversial desalination plan: Senegal has kicked off work to build the country’s first water desalination plant, a scheme contested by critics as costly and an environmental peril. President Macky Sall on Tuesday ceremonially launched work to build a plant in Dakar’s Mamelles district aimed at easing the capital’s […]
Read more »South Asia ‘Sorely Needs Transboundary River Accord’
June 1st, 2022
Via SciDevNet, an article on South Asia’s need for a transboundary river accord: Countries around the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin lose over US$14.2 billion annually from lack of cooperation in sharing the waters of these rivers, with little prospect of accord in the foreseeable future, according to new analysis. “A lack of collaborative arrangements and unilateral exploitation […]
Read more »‘Flash Droughts’ U.S. Midwest’s Next Big Climate Threat
May 26th, 2022
Via Grist, an article on ‘flash droughts’, potentially the Midwest’s next big climate threat: September in Oklahoma is typically a rainy season, when farmers take advantage of the state’s third-wettest month to plant winter wheat. But last year, many were caught off guard by abnormally dry weather that descended without warning. In the span of […]
Read more »Iconic Iran River Threatened By Droughts, Diversions
May 25th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on an iconic Iranian river under threat: The famed river bridges of the Iranian city of Isfahan are a beloved tourist draw — but much of the time their stone arches span just sand and rocks, not water. Drought and upstream water diversions have seen the Zayandeh Rood, “fertile river” […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Water Crisis
May 24th, 2022
Via Frontier Post, an article on Pakistan’s water crisis: Depleting surface and ground water resource has rung alarm bells for the policy makers with country touching the scarcity bench mark due to per capita water availability dwindling six times since independence. Absence of sufficient water storages, rising temperature and rampant wastage of irrigation water was […]
Read more »Key Iraq Irrigation Reservoir Close To Drying Out
May 24th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on Iraq’s drought: Iraq’s Lake Hamrin, a once-vast reservoir northeast of Baghdad that is the sole source of water for irrigation across Diyala province, has nearly dried out, a senior official said Friday. Successive years of low rainfall and a sharp reduction in the flow of water down the Sirwan […]
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