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From Drought to Flood: Solutions for Extreme Climate Events in Monterrey, Mexico
April 2nd, 2024
Via Harvard Graduate School of Design, a look at Monterrey, Mexico and its plans to tackle extreme water events: In 2022 and 2023, Monterrey, Mexico’s second largest city, experienced a critical shortage of water and, like Cape Town in 2018, was close to a Day Zero of water provision. The emergency made international headlines, as the […]
Read more »China Ships Tibetan Glacier Water To Climate-Threatened Maldives
April 2nd, 2024
Via Terra Daily, a report on China’s recent shipment of bottled Tibetan water to the Maldives, a shipment that is both ironical and also impactful given India’s geopolitical interest in the Maldives and ongoing tensions between India and China: China has sent more than a million bottles of water from melting Tibetan glaciers to the […]
Read more »Iraq’s Water Crisis Impact Agriculture
March 31st, 2024
Via Reuters, a report on Iraq’s water crisis: Faced with a failing date palm business due to scarce resources, Iraqi farmer Ismail Ibrahim has planted “sidr”, or jujube, trees which require far less water during an irrigation crisis. Iraq is part of the “Fertile Crescent”, arable land sweeping from the Mediterranean to the Gulf which […]
Read more »Could Taliban Canal Spark Water War In Central Asia?
March 31st, 2024
Via Radio Free Europe, a short video look at whether a new Afghan canal could spark a water war in Central Asia: The Taliban-led government is pushing forward with the ambitious Qosh Tepa canal project despite concerns over its impact. The waterway taps the Amu Darya River, a key water source that runs through Afghanistan […]
Read more »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 […]
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