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Drought: Draining Water Supplies and Driving Up Food Costs Where You’d Least Expect
July 10th, 2025
Via Grist, a look at how – from Mexico City to the Mekong Delta – increasingly severe droughts caused by climate change are laying waste to ecosystems and economies everywhere: Taking shovels and buckets to a dried-up sandy belt of the Vhombozi River in Zimbabwe last August, groups of Mudzi district villagers gathered to dig […]
Read more »The Dam That Sparked a South American Spying Scandal
July 10th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a report on how ties between Brazil and Paraguay are fraying as they renegotiate access to one of the world’s most powerful energy sources: Stretching for 5 miles across the Paraná River between Paraguay and Brazil, Itaipu is one of the world’s most powerful hydroelectric dams. In 2016 alone, the binational facility, […]
Read more »Ethiopia’s Mega Dam On Nile ‘Now Complete’: PM
July 4th, 2025
As reported by France24, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday said a multi-billion-dollar mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long worried neighbouring countries is complete and will be officially inaugurated in September: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), launched in 2011 with a $4-billion budget, is considered Africa’s largest hydroelectric project stretching 1.8 […]
Read more »The Indus Treaty Verdict: When Water Outlasts War
July 4th, 2025
Via the Lowy Institute, a look at how a Hague ruling against India’s treaty “abeyance” might stop a precedent that could spread from China to Bangladesh: For more than 60 years, the Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan has stood as one of the few enduring triumphs of postcolonial diplomacy – surviving wars, diplomatic breakdowns, and […]
Read more »India’s Unilateral Halt To Water Treaty: 4 Options Pakistan Can Take
June 29th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, commentary on options that Pakistan can take to take on India’s unilateral decision to halt the Indus Water Treaty: After military clashes between India and Pakistan broke out earlier this month — at more than three days’ duration, making them the most inflamed between the two countries in decades — a ceasefire was agreed on May 10. […]
Read more »For the Future of Water Conservation, Look to … Los Angeles?
June 29th, 2025
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how years of drought forced the city to rethink its water usage and, almost under the radar, to remake its identity. You’ve probably come across more stories about water woes in California than you can recall, so you may feel you’ve had enough for a while. […]
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