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In Idaho, Water Shortages Pit Farmers Against One Another
July 20th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how – this summer – a short-lived curtailment order brought a dispute to a head between farmers irrigating from the Snake River and those dependent on groundwater: Along the banks of the Snake River, below the Magic Valley’s fields of barley, wheat and corn, groundwater from a massive […]
Read more »South Texas Leaders Push To Meet Incoming Mexican President Over Water Debt ‘Crisis’
July 18th, 2024
Via InformNY, a report on efforts by South Texas leaders to meet with the incoming Mexican president over water debt ‘crisis’: Lawmakers from the Rio Grande Valley are vying to meet with Mexico’s incoming president over water owed to the United States. U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, this week wrote to Mexican President-Elect […]
Read more »Securing Indus Waters Rights
July 10th, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on Indus River water tensions: The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) based in The Hague has declared that they have the jurisdiction to preside over the Pakistan-India conflict over the contentious Kishanganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects in the territory of Kashmir. This decision raises one of the oldest and most profound […]
Read more »Sicily’s Drought Dries Up Summer Tourism
July 10th, 2024
Via Fortune a report on Sicily’s summer drought which is so acute this year that it’s drying up lakes and forcing cities to turn away tourists because they don’t have enough water: The Italian island of Sicily might have abundant history, but the same can’t be said about its water supply. Located on Sicily’s southwest […]
Read more »As Drought Parches Mexico, A Yaqui Water Defender Fights for A Sacred River
July 10th, 2024
Via Mongabay, an article on a Yaqui water defender fighting for a sacred river in Mexico: On Sept. 11, 2014, Mario Luna Romero was arrested by state judicial police in Obregón, a city on the periphery of his tribe’s territory in Sonora, and transported to a maximum-security prison. They accused him of being involved in […]
Read more »‘Whack-a-Mole Situation’: Algerian Officials Wrestle with Water Shortage Anger
July 3rd, 2024
Via The Guardian, a report on Algeria, where critics say the state is not acting fast enough to build desalination stations to deal with dwindling rainfall and resulting drought: On 8 June, anger over months of water rationing spilled over in the drought-stricken central Algerian town of Tiaret, where balaclava-wearing demonstrators barricaded roads and burned […]
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