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Household Wells Are Failing In Northern California
August 13th, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at the impact of drought in Northern California where many household wells are failing: Though it was a sudden death, happening overnight during a record-smashing June heat wave, the demise of Maralee and Noal Childs’s household water well was not entirely unexpected. The Childses live in Glenn County, […]
Read more »Argentina’s Paraná River Drops to 77-Year Low
August 13th, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on Argentina’s Paraná River: The Paraná River stretches through the heart of central South America, arising in Brazil and extending over 3,000 miles through Paraguay and Argentina. The continent’s second-longest river behind the Amazon, the Paraná is a workhorse, supporting rainforest diversity, Indigenous ancestral homes, and Argentina’s economy: over […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Managing China’s Thousands Of Dams In An Era of Climate Change
August 13th, 2021
Via Quartz, an article on China’s challenge of managing thousands of dams in an era of climate change: The Yangtze river’s periodic flooding was one of the reasons China built the Three Gorges dam, the largest addition to the country’s network of tens of thousands of dams. The idea was that by storing and then […]
Read more »The Water – Taliban Connection
August 13th, 2021
Via The Conversation, a report on the Taliban’s seizure of Herat and a nearby dam that provides water and power to hundreds of thousands of Afghans: The Taliban have taken over the Afghan city of Herat, capping three weeks of furious fighting in which both men and women took up arms to defend their city while many residents […]
Read more »Belt and Road Dam In Cambodia Branded A ‘Disaster’ For Local Communities
August 10th, 2021
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on how Chinese-funded projects threaten a food crisis in the Mekong river delta: A Chinese-financed dam in Cambodia, part of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, has been a human rights “disaster” for indigenous and ethnic minority communities, according to a report published on Tuesday. Human Rights Watch claims the […]
Read more »Drought-Hit California Town Sinking Into The Ground
August 10th, 2021
Via Seed Daily, an article on the impact of groundwater overuse: “You’ve got too many farmers pumping all around,” complained Raul Atilano. This octogenarian resident of Corcoran, the self-proclaimed farming capital of California, was struggling to make sense of the strangest of phenomena: his already suffering town is sinking, ever so gradually, into the ground. […]
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