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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 […]
Read more »Strengthening Water Security Through International Cooperation: The Morocco-China Partnership
September 19th, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, an article on cooperation between China and Morocco around water: As the world grapples with the growing challenges of climate change, water security has become a central concern for many nations. In this context, the recent signing of a memorandum of understanding between Morocco and China marks a significant step toward addressing […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Why India’s Deepening Water Crisis Needs A Market-Based Credit Solution
September 19th, 2024
Via FirstPost, commentary on the potential for a market-based approach to solving India’s growing water scarcity challenge: India ranks among leading water exporters globally. It needs a market-based framework for tradable water credits in line with carbon credits, which provides incentives for water conservation and quality improvement India is at a critical juncture on water […]
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