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Abysmal Math on the Colorado River
April 14th, 2026
Via The Land Desk, commentary on how the U.S. government is looking to avoid de facto deadpool at Glen Canyon Dam: The Central Arizona Project canal, which carries Colorado River water to Phoenix and Tucson, as it runs past fields in the desert (that are irrigated with groundwater, not CAP water). The CAP is not […]
Read more »The Rural World Won’t Go Dry Without a Fight
April 14th, 2026
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how – from Jordan to Nepal – solutions to urban water woes are leaving the countryside angry and parched: That the fields around al-Jafr in southern Jordan are often desiccated is a source of frustration and deprivation for locals. That they can sometimes hear the gurgle of water in […]
Read more »India’s Worrying Plans for Dams on Transboundary Rivers Shared with Bangladesh
April 10th, 2026
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at the rising water tension between India and Bangladesh, where the former has at least seven hydroelectric projects on two transboundary river systems in the pipeline in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya: On Google maps, a deep green stretch about 100 kilometers long along the India-Bangladesh border, right […]
Read more »The Colorado River Is Effectively Insolvent — And Corporate Water Users May Not Have Priced It
April 9th, 2026
Via Todd Cort’s informative Substack, commentary on the Colorado River, a climate-induced bankruptcy sitting on the balance sheet: Imagine that a company had a pension fund that promised $16.5 billion in future payouts but the value of that fund today sits at only $12.4 billion. Moreover, that pension fund has been drawing down the balance […]
Read more »Confluence Beyond Borders in a Changing Climate: Dialogue for Cooperation in Central Asia and Afghanistan
April 9th, 2026
Courtesy of SIWI, a new report examining water cooperation in Central Asia and Afghanistan: The region of Central Asia and Afghanistan faces growing water insecurity and natural hazards amidst a rapidly changing climate with rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and glacial melt affecting the volume, peak, and variability of river flows. Increased water scarcity and […]
Read more »Why the Aral Sea’s Restoration Matters Beyond Central Asia
April 3rd, 2026
Via The Diplomat, a report on how the Aral Sea’s story demonstrates how human actions can profoundly alter natural systems, yet it also shows that determined cooperation can begin to repair environmental damage that once seemed irreversible: Few environmental disasters illustrate the consequences of human mismanagement as starkly as the fate of the Aral Sea. Once the […]
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