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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 […]
Read more »The Outrageous Scheme to Capture and Sell Greenland’s Meltwater
September 19th, 2024
Courtesy of Wired, an article on a startup which says shipping meltwater from Greenland’s glaciers internationally will boost the local economy and could help ease water pressures in arid regions. But what does that actually mean for the world? Fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce in many countries, but not in Greenland. Its ice sheet contains around […]
Read more »Why Investing in Water Storage Matters in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert
September 19th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on Mongolia and what Ulaanbaatar can do to ensure the access the country needs for decades to come? Given that Mongolia has been ranked as one of 36 high-water-risk countries in the world, the recently concluded U.N. Water Conference touched on issues of immense importance to the country. The U.N. […]
Read more »The Only Major City In The World Not Built On a Water Source
September 17th, 2024
Via Medium, an article on Johannesburg, the only major city in the world not built on a water source: One thing that all major cities have in common is often their proximity or access to water. Even cities considered to reside in the desert, like Phoenix and Las Vegas, get water from the nearby Salt […]
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