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Millions Depend On The Mississippi—But The Mighty River Is Running Dry
September 27th, 2024
Tons of grains and crops are shipped down the Mississippi River every year. This National Geographic article examines what will happen if increasingly persistent droughts shrink America’s longest river? About eighty miles south of St. Louis, Brian Ragsdale’s boat, the Dredge Potter, has been deployed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carve a […]
Read more »How Did An Argentinian Lake The Size of New York City Disappear?
September 26th, 2024
Via The Guardian, a sobering look at how drought and mismanagement have turned Lake Colhué Huapí into a virtual dustbowl. Now the race is on to save its sister lake from the same fate From the top of a hill, Yeni Szlapelis, 46, looks out over the arid plateaus of south-central Argentina at the sources of her […]
Read more »Disease and Malnutrition Stalk Water-Scarce Afghanistan
September 25th, 2024
Via Dialogue Earth, a look at how three years of drought, a pariah regime and the loss of skilled workers have crippled Afghanistan’s water infrastructure, increasing water prices and spreading disease Every evening, Abdullah Achakzai, director of the Environmental Volunteer Network (EVN), encounters the same grim reality as he returns home from work in Kabul. […]
Read more »Navajo Nation: America’s Water-Inequality Capital. It Might Be About to Change
September 23rd, 2024
Via Time Magazine, an article on Navajo Nation and water challenges facing America’s First Nations: In the Navajo Nation—a sweeping landscape of red-rock canyons and desert that takes in the Four Corners—water is not taken for granted. Here, more than 1 in 3 Diné, as Navajo people call themselves, must haul water to their homes, […]
Read more »The Key to Fix California’s Inadequate Water Storage? Put Water Underground, Scientists Say
September 22nd, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a report on a new study that finds Calfornia should replenish groundwater aquifers to sustain agriculture: A new University of California Riverside study on California agriculture and climate proposes a plan for new water capture, storage and distribution systems throughout California that will sustain agriculture and keep up with climate trajectories. Available water […]
Read more »The North American Water and Power Alliance: The Forgotten Project That Could Have Saved America From Drought
September 20th, 2024
Via the now discontinued BuzzFeed (but saved with web archive), a look at the North American Water and Power Alliance – an audacious proposal to divert water to parched western states that would have cost hundreds of billions of dollars and pissed off Canada. But what if it had worked? When the fire started on a […]
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