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A Changing Climate Is Scorching the World’s Biggest River
October 6th, 2024
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at how – as a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River – Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway: The world’s largest river is parched. The Amazon River, battered by back-to-back droughts fueled […]
Read more »Romania Is Europe’s Nation of Farmers, But Water Scarcity Is Causing Its Crops To Die
October 6th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a look at how depleting water supplies are jeopardizing Romania’s role in the EU food supply chain: The 191 kilometer-long canal linking the Siret river in Romania to the country’s rich, fertile Baragan plain never caught the imagination of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The project only finally got going in 1986, three years before […]
Read more »Somalia Accuses Ethiopia Of ‘Deliberately Releasing Water’ To Cause Flooding
October 4th, 2024
Via The Addis Standard, an article on Somalia’s president’s accusations that Ethiopia is ‘deliberately releasing water’ to cause flooding: Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has accused Ethiopia of “deliberately releasing water from reservoirs at dams upstream” to cause flooding in Somalia, escalating tensions between the two Horn of Africa nations. In an interview with The Economist on […]
Read more »Arizona Tribes’ Long Fight for Share of Colorado River Water Nears Resolution in Congress
October 3rd, 2024
Via Prescott News, an article on the Arizona tribes’ long fight for share of Colorado River water: Seven states that rely on the Colorado River each got a cut of its water under a deal struck over a century ago – a deal that excluded the Hopi, the Navajo and other tribal nations. After years […]
Read more »Glen Canyon Dam: Facing Dead Pool
October 2nd, 2024
Via The Land Desk, a look at the crisis facing Glen Canyon Dam: In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. But when we got to Cortez, the road was barricaded. Hours earlier, three men had stolen a water-tanker truck and killed […]
Read more »The Panama Canal Needs More Water. The Solution Could Displace Thousands.
October 2nd, 2024
Via Grist, a report on how a proposed dam and reservoir along the Rio Indio would bring much-needed water to the Panama Canal, but at a steep cost: Thousand-foot-long ships chug through the Panama Canal’s waters each day, over the submerged stumps of a forgotten forest and by the banks of a new one, its […]
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