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Mexico City: Drinking Itself Into The Ground
March 2nd, 2017
Via CityMetric, an article on Mexico City: When the Aztecs founded the city of Tenochtitlán in the middle of a lake, they thought they were being incredibly clever. It was 1325, the height of the era of Mesoamerican tribes vying for supremacy in the narrowing strip between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Gulf, and […]
Read more »Afghan Capital’s Thirsty Residents Dig Deep To Combat Drought, Overuse
March 2nd, 2017
Courtesy of Reuters, a report on Kabul’s water crisis: A growing population is straining water supplies in Afghanistan’s capital, forcing those who can afford it to dig unregulated wells ever deeper to tap a falling water table. Finding water in arid Afghanistan is virtually always a challenge, but a drop in the groundwater level in […]
Read more »U.S. West’s Challenge Is Still Water Scarcity, Wet Winter Or Not
February 28th, 2017
Via the Christian Science Monitor, a detailed look at how – with climate change affecting water supplies already strained by urban growth – states in the Colorado River basin are being forced to innovate and adapt: The number of “For Sale” signs compete with “Open” in the storefronts along the main street in this hilly […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Pakistan’s Water Crisis And The Indus Water Treaty
February 24th, 2017
Via the Eurasia Review, an article on Pakistan’s water crisis and the Indus Water Treaty: It is well known that Pakistan is one of the most “water stressed” countries of the world. Currently its per capita annual water capability is 1017 cubic metres- that is perilously close to a threshold of 1000 cubic metres. Back […]
Read more »High and Dry: La Paz’s Post Water World
February 22nd, 2017
Via Popular Science, a detailed look at La Paz’s water challenges: The early-morning sunshine, sharp and unfiltered in the high Andean altitude, flashes off the Water General’s sunglasses. He poses next to a 2,500-gallon tank that his troops placed behind this market of stalls in La Paz, Bolivia. The women who sell here—short, stout, and dressed […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Water Footprint
February 22nd, 2017
Via China Dialogue, a report on China’s water crisis: One crisp spring morning in Lijiang, Yunnan province, our family walk took us into a seemingly innocuous Chinese park. Pagodas and decorative rocks lined the manicured paths that led to the central point, Black Dragon Pool. But there was no water to be seen. Only barren […]
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