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‘Megadrought’ Along Border Strains US-Mexico Water Relations
July 4th, 2021
Via SmartWater Magazine, an article on how the United States and Mexico are tussling over their dwindling shared water supplies after years of unprecedented heat and insufficient rainfall: The United States and Mexico are tussling over their dwindling shared water supplies after years of unprecedented heat and insufficient rainfall. Sustained drought on the middle-lower Rio Grande since the mid-1990s […]
Read more »Mekong River Commission Calls for Improved Hydropower Data Sharing
July 1st, 2021
Via The Diplomat, an article on the Mekong River Commission’s efforts to improve hydropower data sharing: The Mekong River Commission (MRC) has urged China and its Southeast Asian member states to share more data on hydropower operations that are contributing to the increasingly wild fluctuation in water levels on the vital waterway. In its latest situation report, released […]
Read more »Jordan Suffers Summer Of Water Shortages
July 1st, 2021
Via , a report on Jordan’s water scarcity crisis: Jordanians face the country’s worse water shortage in almost a decade due to the combined effect of weak rainfall and water overuse during COVID-19 lockdowns. The arid country had only 60 per cent of the rainfall it usually gets between October 2020 and May 2021, leaving […]
Read more »Millions At Risk of Displacement As Afghanistan Faces Extreme Drought
July 1st, 2021
Via ReliefWeb, a report that millions are at risk of displacement as Afghanistan faces extreme drought: Severe drought in Afghanistan could trigger the displacement of thousands of families, according to the latest IRC assessment across five provinces in the West, South and East of the country. This comes during an alarming increase in violence in recent weeks, […]
Read more »In California Water May Be The Most Valuable Crop Of All
June 29th, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on how drought in California is upending the food supply and changing farmers’ decision about their business: In America’s fruit and nut basket, water is now the most precious crop of all. It explains why, amid a historic drought parching much of the American West, a grower […]
Read more »Arsenic and the Ganges Delta: Water Crisis in Bangladesh
June 29th, 2021
Via Future Directions International, an article on Bangladesh which – in the face of a water crisis started by arsenic poisoning of groundwater and further compounded by climate change-induced salinity – must act swiftly to prevent a future surge of climate refugees: Bangladesh’s supply of potable water has been steadily eroded, as a combination of extreme […]
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