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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 […]
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 […]
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