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Water Woes: The Caspian Sea Is Shrinking Rapidly
November 27th, 2024
Via The Economist, a look at the implications of the Caspian Sea’s decline for Russia: FOR MANY living on Kazakhstan’s coast, it was obvious long ago. The Caspian Sea is drying up. The world’s largest inland body of water has dropped by two metres since the mid-1990s, shrinking by 15,000 square km, an area bigger than […]
Read more »Despite Biden Administration Proposals to Address Colorado River Shortages, a Solution Is Far Off
November 23rd, 2024
Colorado River users are in tense negotiations over the critical waterway’s future as climate-driven drought and overuse continue to diminish its flows. But, Inside Climate News reports, the federal proposal may not help much: The Biden administration on Wednesday released four alternatives to address the drought-stricken Colorado River’s water shortages, giving seven states, 30 tribes […]
Read more »With Start of Trilateral Hydropower Trade, South Asia Begins Historic Cooperation
November 21st, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at how hydropower is ushering in historic cooperation in South Asia: On November 15, a trilateral power-sharing agreement between India, Nepal, and Bangladesh came into effect. Under the agreement, which was signed on October 3, hydropower-rich Nepal will export 40 MW of electricity to energy-starved Bangladesh through the Indian power grid. Nepal and […]
Read more »Afghanistan Battles Climate Change
November 19th, 2024
Via YouTube, an interesting video report on how – the sixth most climate-vulnerable nation in the world, Afghanistan – has promised to put in place a climate action plan for the country amid massive drought, desertification and the impact they have had on social ills.
Read more »Why Hydropower Is Failing Zambia, and Could Fail Others
November 19th, 2024
Via The Washington Post, a look at how warmer temperatures are fueling drought, making it harder for Zambia and other developing nations to generate hydropower: For a while, it looked like Zambia had achieved a status that almost any nation would envy. Drawing hydropower from the massive Zambezi River and its tributaries, the country could […]
Read more »Iran’s Groundwater and Subsidence Crisis
November 19th, 2024
Via Smart Water Magazine, a report on Iran’s water crisis: Large parts of Iran are affected by groundwater loss and land subsidence. This is shown by a study by Mahmud Haghshenas Haghighi and Mahdi Motagh, which has just been published in the journal Science Advances. The two authors from Leibniz University Hannover and the GFZ German Research Centre for […]
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