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Arizona Residents Fear What the State’s Mining Boom Will Do to Their Water
August 10th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, an article on many Arizonans’ fears that the state’s mining boom will threaten limited water supplies, as nearly 80 percent of Arizona lacks any form of groundwater regulation, allowing big users like the copper mines supplying the energy transition to consume vast amounts of the scarce resource: Overlooking a ridge in […]
Read more »As Canadian River Shrivels, Northern Communities Call for a Highway
August 8th, 2024
Via Yale e360, a look at how – with the Mackenzie River too low for barge traffic – villages in the Northwest Territories are flying in food, fuel, and other essentials. A proposed highway could offer a lifeline as climate change further reduces flows, but the project faces big challenges in a warming Arctic. In […]
Read more »Parched Tiger: In Water-Starved Punjab, Why Plans For A New Irrigation Canal Have Raised Concerns
August 8th, 2024
Via India Express, a report on a new irrigation canal planned in water-starved Punjab: Almost seven decades after the construction of the Bhakra Main Line (BML), Sirhind Feeder, and the Bist Doab canals in the mid-1950s, Punjab wants to spend Rs 2,300 crore on a new irrigation channel, running roughly 150 km in a north-south […]
Read more »Chinese Dam Construction In Afghanistan: Implications for Pakistan
August 7th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report that Pakistan has long been concerned about dams on transboundary rivers in Afghanistan, but China’s involvement creates an opportunity for regional cooperation: Afghanistan’s Ministry of Water and Energy recently announced that a Chinese company has expressed interest in investing in three large dams on the Kunar River with a collective […]
Read more »The Geopolitics of Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal
August 7th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at geopolitics of Cambodia’s Funan Techno Canal: In Cambodia, the $1.7 billion Funan Techo Canal, which will connect Phnom Penh and the Gulf of Thailand, symbolizes national pride, security, and international trade connectivity. This sentiment is echoed by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and his mentor father, Hun Sen, who […]
Read more »A Seine River in the Americas?
August 7th, 2024
Via El Pais, commentary on whether – after watching athletes and officials bathe in the Seine River during the Paris Olympics – some viewers from other countries probably wondered: could something like this happen in my city? As a development specialist, I was thrilled by France’s decision to use the Olympics to showcase the extraordinary […]
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