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New Mexico: Swift Action Needed To Address Dwindling Water Supply
July 21st, 2021
Via the Santa Fe New Mexican, a report on the state’s dwindling water supply: Drive past any major body of water in New Mexico, and you will probably see the harsh reality of the state’s drought. Simply put, our water supply is pretty much tapped out. “There is no buffer left … no cushion,” David […]
Read more »The Thirsty West’s Dreaded Water Crisis Is Here
July 21st, 2021
Via The Washington Post, an OpEd on water in the US West: To grow up in the American West in the 20th century was to swing between inferiority and hubris. Our history books taught us that all great and elevated events happened back east. We should go there someday and study the monuments. At the […]
Read more »A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Stopped Building
July 20th, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at how drought caused one town in Utah to stop growth: Across the western United States, a summer of record-breaking drought, heat waves and megafires exacerbated by climate change is forcing millions of people to confront an inescapable string of disasters that challenge the future of growth. […]
Read more »Egypt Visits DRC (Chair of African Union) To Discuss Cooperation
July 20th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, an article on a recent visit of the Egyptian water minister to the Democratic Republic of the Congo which is currently chairing the African Union, which is mediating on the dispute over Ethiopia’s dam on the Nile River: Egypt’s water minister visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday. Congo is currently chairing […]
Read more »One Shot Dead In Iranian Water Shortage Protests
July 19th, 2021
Via Terra Daily, a report on Iranian water shortage protests: A demonstrator was shot dead during protests against water shortages in drought-hit Khuzestan in southwestern Iran, state media reported Saturday, with an official blaming the death on “opportunists and rioters”. The demonstrator was killed in the Khuzestan province town of Shadegan, the official IRNA news agency […]
Read more »Can African Union Revive Nile Dam Talks?
July 19th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a look at whether the African Union can revive Nile dam talks: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, in its capacity as the African Union chair, is seeking to host a new negotiation round between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile — […]
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