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Central Asia’s Collapsing Water Tower
October 10th, 2021
Via Cryopolitics, an article on Central Asia’s glaciers: Today’s ‘Fieldwork Friday’ photos come from Kyrgyzstan, where I ventured in 2018 during a trip along the ancient Silk Roads crisscrossing Central Asia. Over the course of a three-day trek, with my Kyrgyz guide (who spent his winters working in a reindeer meat processing plant in Yakutia, […]
Read more »Years-Long Drought Pushes Brazil to the Brink
October 7th, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, an article on the impact of Brazil’s worst drought in nearly a century is choking commerce, threatening ecosystems, and diminishing hydroelectric power generation: Parched conditions have gripped Brazil for nearly a decade. Now, as a historic drought stretches into its third year, the country’s economy, energy systems, and environment are tearing at […]
Read more »Kabul Mayor Says City’s Water Supply Could ‘Dry Up’
September 29th, 2021
Via The Frontier Post, an article on Kabul’s precarious water situation: After decades of conflict, climate change and poor water management, Afghanistan’s capital is facing a dire water shortage. The shortage is becoming a bigger problem with every passing day, and has authorities worried. “There is concern that the city could literally dry up,” Kabul […]
Read more »South America’s Dry Future
September 26th, 2021
Courtesy of the Washington Post, an article on South America’s drought conditions: Sergio Koci’s sunflower farm in the lowlands of northern Argentina has survived decades of political upheaval, runaway inflation and the coronavirus outbreak. But as a series of historic droughts deadens vast expanses of South America, he fears a worsening water crisis could do […]
Read more »Egypt Overhauls Hydropower Plants Amid Nile Dam Crisis
September 23rd, 2021
Via Al Monitor, an article on Egypt’s plans to replace 19 turbines at the Aswan High Dam and Aswan Low Dam as Ethiopia prepares to start producing electricity from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the coming months: The Egyptian government plans to overhaul the hydropower stations of its dams in the southern Aswan governorate amid […]
Read more »U.S. High Plains: Groundwater Is Disappearing
September 23rd, 2021
Via AP News, a report on the decreasing availability of American groundwater: Tim Black‘s cell phone dings, signaling the time to reverse sprinklers spitting water across a pie-shaped section of grass that will provide pasture for his cattle. It’s important not to waste a drop. His family’s future depends on it. For decades, the Texas […]
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