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Amazon: A River In Flux
March 31st, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a report on the Amazon River, where extreme flooding and droughts may be the new norm, challenging its people and ecosystems: Jochen Schöngart darts back and forth along an escarpment just above the Amazon River, a short water taxi ride from downtown Manaus, Brazil. It’s still early this October morning in […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Silicon Valley Faces a Water Crisis That Software Cannot Solve
March 31st, 2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on Bengaluru – a city that gets plenty of rain – but did not properly adapt as its soaring population strained traditional water sources: The water tankers seeking to fill their bellies bounced past the dry lakes of India’s booming technology capital. Their bleary-eyed drivers waited in line […]
Read more »Geopolitics of Hydrography: Ruling the Waves Means First Understanding What Lies Beneath
March 30th, 2024
Via the Lowy Institute, a report on the growing competition among India, China and others to chart international waters as well as the exclusive economic zones of countries around the region: Hydrography, the mapping of bodies of water and surrounding coastal details, is the new front in the battle for influence in the Indian Ocean. […]
Read more »Hydro Project Could Test U.S. Tribal Sovereignty Rule
March 30th, 2024
Via Western Water Notes, a look at an important case in Nevada that is testing the boundaries of tribal sovereignty, specifically the sovereignty question here seems straightforward: pumped hydro may be of value broadly, but if the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe doesn’t want it on tribal land, isn’t their right to refuse the project inherent […]
Read more »Last Call: New Mexico’s Colorado River Deliveries Vulnerable To Existing Water Management Framework
March 30th, 2024
Courtesy of the Colorado Environmental Law Journal, a new article that digs into dig into the law surrounding the New Mexico’s San Juan-Chama Project, which imports Colorado River water into the Rio Grande Basin that has become vital to water supplies in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande Valley. A summary of learnings was that New […]
Read more »A Thirsty Reality: Iran’s Dire Water Situation
March 30th, 2024
Via the Atlantic Council, a report on Iran’s water crisis: Despite climate warnings since 1988, Iranian officials have consistently ignored regional environmental concerns, especially following the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). For example, they prioritized dam construction and increased groundwater extraction for food self-sufficiency, disregarding environmental impacts. Former Agriculture Minister Issa Kalantari is now warning of irreversible groundwater depletion, […]
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