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Water Tensions Boil Over In Drought-Stricken Central Algeria Over Months of Water Shortages
June 16th, 2024
Via AP News, a report on riots erupting in drought-stricken central Algeria over months of water shortages: Violent riots erupted in a drought-stricken Algerian desert city last weekend after months of water shortages left taps running dry and forced residents to queue to access water for their households. In Tiaret — a central Algerian city […]
Read more »The Decline of the Rio Grande
June 15th, 2024
Via The New Yorker, an article on the decline of the Rio Grande: The smell that comes from a sugar mill operating at full capacity is malty and industrial, something like fermented molasses. “Normal people don’t like it, but, for us, it’s the smell of a sugar mill running. So I love that smell,” Cain […]
Read more »Parched in the Panhandle: How Industry Ushered In New Era of Groundwater Depletion in Oklahoma
June 15th, 2024
Via Investigate Midwest, a report on how Seaboard Foods rebuilt the Oklahoma panhandle’s economy, which ushered in a new era of groundwater depletion: Key takeaways * Groundwater levels in the panhandle have been declining for decades but depleted at a quicker rate after the opening of Seaboard’s pork processing plant. * State water laws have […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Rural India Runs Dry as Thirsty Megacity Mumbai Sucks Water
June 14th, 2024
Via Terra Daily, a report on the impact that Mubai’s water demands have upon rural communities: Far from the gleaming high-rises of India’s financial capital Mumbai, impoverished villages in areas supplying the megacity’s water are running dry — a crisis repeated across the country that experts say foreshadows terrifying problems. “The people in Mumbai drink […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Climate Change Adds to Water Woes in the Andaman Islands
June 14th, 2024
Via Dialogue Earth, a look at the Indian archipelago which is a case study in why water supply is an increasingly big problem for small islands: As clouds gathered on the horizon one morning in late May, the residents of Kadamtala in India’s Andaman Islands were elated. “That was the first signs of rain in […]
Read more »A Cowboy Entrepreneur Dreams of a Massive Water Pipeline Over the Rockies
June 13th, 2024
Via Mother Jones, a report on a proposed project which could be “the largest privately funded water project in Western history”: Water is life. It’s also big business. In our November + December 2023 issue, Mother Jones dives into the West’s deepening water crisis—and the forces behind it, from historic drought to short-sighted policies to […]
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