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Drought and Unequal Water Rights Threaten Family Farms in Chile
April 30th, 2024
Via IPS News, an article on how rural farmers in Chile are facing a combination of climate change-induced mega droughts, and water policies that make access unaffordable and a State that either doesn’t want to or dares not intervene in the water market means family enterprises are dying out: Lack of water threatens the very […]
Read more »Indonesia and the Future of Water Diplomacy
April 29th, 2024
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at the forthcoming 10th World Water Forum conference, will be an important momentum for Indonesia to fight for access to clean water and better sanitation for its people and the world as a whole: Through its participation in the World Water Forum, Indonesia, the largest archipelagic country in the world, […]
Read more »Feds Say He Masterminded An Epic California Water Heist. Some farmers Say He’s Their Robin Hood
April 29th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, an article on a federal allegation that a San Joaquin Valley water district official secretly directed employees to exploit a leak in the Delta-Mendota Canal: Robert Zavala was fresh out of the Marines and looking to escape dead-end work at a poultry plant in the early 1990s when his old […]
Read more »Water For The Future: Tangiers Takes Steps To Secure Its Blue Gold
April 28th, 2024
Via Zawya, a look at Tangiers’ effforts to secure its water: The white city of Tangiers wakes gently at daybreak. Schoolchildren mill up and down the main streets of the old town, the medina, crossing paths with the crowd heading to offices and a few morning tourists. Overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar at the northern tip […]
Read more »Mexico Water Wars: Farmers Take Over Avocado Orchards That Need Too Much Water
April 28th, 2024
Via Fast Company, an article on water conflicts between Mexican farmers and avocado growers—who are often sponsored by or pay protection money to drug cartels: As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action on thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in […]
Read more »California’s Salmon Industry: Facing Extinction, Not Because of Drought, but Politics and Policies
April 28th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, commentary on how water, politics, and policy are driving the salmon industry into extinction in California: Kenneth Brown, the owner of Bodega Tackle in Petaluma, reckons he has lost almost $450,000 in the last year. “I haven’t taken a paycheck in seven or eight months,” he says. He has […]
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