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Taiwan Water Supply: Facing Rising Pressure From Tech Boom, Climate Chnage
February 22nd, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on Taiwan’s water crisis: Taiwan’s water supply, the lifeblood of its critical technology industry, faces growing pressures from industrial expansion and climate change, a new report warns. Advanced semiconductor production in Taiwan consumes daily water volumes comparable to those of a medium-sized city, with demand expected to grow even more […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Sindh Province: ‘Our Water Has Been Taken hostage’
February 18th, 2025
Via Dialogue.Earth, a look at a new generation’s fight for water, power and resistance in Pakistan, and why Sindh’s survival depends on resisting mega-projects: On a crisp Karachi morning I meet Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr; he is calm, approachable, and dressed in an equally crisp white shalwar kameez (a traditional South and Central Asian outfit). In his […]
Read more »Will J.D. Vance save the Great Lakes from Trump?
February 14th, 2025
Courtesy of Grist, commentary on the new U.S. Administration’s policy towards the Great Lakes: Last year, Vice President J.D. Vance, then an Ohio senator, was part of a bipartisan coalition calling to increase funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, or GLRI — among the country’s largest investments aimed at protecting and restoring the Great Lakes. “The Great […]
Read more »What’s Driving China’s Controversial Mega-Dam in Tibet?
February 14th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, commentary on how – while the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has sparked concerns in India – from China’s perspective it is mostly motivated by domestic factors: On December 25, 2024, Chinese state media Xinhua reported that the country had officially approved the construction of what will be the […]
Read more »Giving a Dam: Wyoming Tribes Push to Control Reservation Water as the State Proposes Sending it to Outside Irrigators
February 9th, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho have long fought for water sovereignty on the Wind River Indian Reservation, but their effort is being challenged by federal legislation and a changing water landscape. Indigenous Peoples’ Day in October was thick with smoke on the Wind River Indian Reservation, […]
Read more »Water: The Other US-Mexico Border Crisis That Is Growing Worse
February 7th, 2025
Via The Conversation, a report on growing water tensions between the U.S. and Mexico: Immigration and border security will be the likely focus of U.S.-Mexico relations under the new Trump administration. But there also is a growing water crisis along the U.S.–Mexico border that affects tens of millions of people on both sides, and it can only […]
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