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South Texas Developers Make a Sales Pitch to Sell Groundwater. Will Laredo Buy It?
April 17th, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, a report on how Laredo has long sought a secondary water supply to supplement the Rio Grande. A development in Webb County could provide a solution—but one with a hefty price tag. The Walker family property at the intersection of I-35 and US-83 in Webb County is a rugged expanse of […]
Read more »Mexico To Send Water To Texas Farmers as US Treaty Threat Grows
April 12th, 2025
Via The Guardian, a report on how Mexico’s failure to keep up 81-year-old water-sharing treaty has sparked a diplomatic spat with the US: Mexico will make an immediate water delivery to Texas farmers to help make up its shortfall under a treaty that has strained US relations and prompted tariff threats by Donald Trump, said Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, […]
Read more »To Protect the Sea, the Kazakh Government Must Disclose Caspian Oil Agreements
April 12th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at efforts to protect the Caspian Sea: The fate of the Caspian Sea hangs in the balance. A vital and irreplaceable natural treasure, the world’s largest landlocked body of water is being plundered in secrecy, its future dictated by international oil and gas giants operating behind closed doors. This opaque […]
Read more »Trump’s Denial of Mexico’s Colorado River Request Sparks Concerns Over Future Water Negotiations
April 5th, 2025
Via The Hill, an article on the Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to deny a delivery of water to Mexico: The Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to deny a delivery of water to Mexico is raising alarm among experts, who fear it could jeopardize future cross-border negotiations in an increasingly thirsty region. The refusal, which marked the first such rejection in […]
Read more »The Gorge Between China and India on Hydropolitics
April 2nd, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on how miscommunication and misunderstood geography are confounding discussions about China’s planned dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo gorge: On Christmas Eve 2024, the Chinese government announced that it had approved the world’s largest – and, at $137 billion, most expensive – hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in the Eastern Himalaya, […]
Read more »Data Centers a Small, But Growing Factor in Arizona’s Water Budget
April 2nd, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a report on the water footprint of Arizona’s growing data center industry: It was supposed to be called Cipriani, a master planned community with more than 9,700 homes at the western fringe of this sprawling desert city in central Arizona. Plans have changed. One regional growth industry – housing – is […]
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