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Morocco Withers Under Worst Drought In 40 Years
March 23rd, 2022
Via Al Monitor, a report on the water supply fears as Morocco endures its worst drought since the 1980s: As Morocco withers under its worst drought in 40 years, experts warn that a combination of climate change and bad resource management could trigger severe drinking water shortages. “The country hasn’t seen a situation like this […]
Read more »Egypt Deepens Military Ties With Sudan As Ethiopia Fills Nile Dam
March 22nd, 2022
Via Al Monitor, a report on how Egypt and Sudan continue to build on their military relations amid rising tensions with Ethiopia with the approaching third filling phase of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam despite the negotiations halt: Egypt and Sudan held high-level military talks recently amid mounting tensions with Ethiopia over its giant hydroelectric dam on […]
Read more »Colorado River: Don’t Blame Upper Basin States
March 22nd, 2022
Via Writers on the Range, commentary on the Colorado River blame game between Upper and Lower Basin states: Kyle Roerink’s recent “Writers on the Range” opinion (“A dangerous game of chicken on the Colorado River”) reminds one of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1983 caution in a Washington Post op-ed: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but […]
Read more »Climate Change May Devastate The Middle East
March 20th, 2022
Via Brookings Institute, a paper on the devastating impact that climate change and water scarcity may have upon the Middle East: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is among the most vulnerable places in the world to climate change. The U.N. has highlighted the devastating toll that climate change will have on the region’s water supplies and food […]
Read more »War in Ukraine Lengthens List of Violent Acts over Water
March 19th, 2022
Via Circle of Blue, an article on the Pacific Institute’s Water Conflict Chronology: One of the first casualties of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was not a human life. In late February, as Vladimir Putin’s war machine was beginning to uncoil, Russian forces destroyed a dam in Ukraine that was blocking water from a Soviet-era canal […]
Read more »The West’s Megadrought Has Left One Arizona Neighborhood with No Water At All
March 16th, 2022
Via Grist, a look at how the West’s megadrought is leaving one Arizona neighborhood with no water at all: Late last year, Leigh Harris logged onto a local Facebook group and learned that she and her neighbors were about to lose their water — for good. Harris lives in an area called Rio Verde Foothills, […]
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