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New Water Accounting Reveals Why Colorado River No Longer Reaches The Sea
March 29th, 2024
Via Nature, a new study that demonstrates how new water accounting reveals why the Colorado River no longer reaches the sea: Abstract Persistent overuse of water supplies from the Colorado River during recent decades has substantially depleted large storage reservoirs and triggered mandatory cutbacks in water use. The river holds critical importance to more than […]
Read more »Hay Grown For Cattle Consumes Nearly Half The Water Drawn From Colorado River
March 29th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, an article on a new study showing that hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River: With chronic water shortages afflicting the Colorado River, discussions about how to cut usage have increasingly focused on a thirsty crop that consumes an especially large share of […]
Read more »Colorado River: Solving Water Crises Begins With Good Data
March 29th, 2024
Via Sustainable Waters, an insightful look at – with negotiations over future allocations of water from the Colorado River (southwestern US) contentious and intensifying – anew study providing comprehensive accounting for all uses of the river’s water can aid design of strategies for bringing use back into balance with available supplies: The Colorado River in […]
Read more »Water Level of Caspian Sea Falling at Accelerating Rate
March 28th, 2024
Via Window on Eurasia, an article on the Caspian Sea: The water level of the Caspian Sea is falling at an accelerating rate, raising the specter not that that inland sea is going to go the way of the Aral anytime soon but rather that lower water levels will complicate the lives of littoral states […]
Read more »Palestinian President Accuses Israel of ‘Deliberately Causing Thirst’ in Gaza
March 28th, 2024
Via Anadolu Agency, a report on the immense water scarcity pressure in the Gaza Strip: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Friday of “deliberately causing thirst” and spreading diseases in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian news agency, WAFA. Abbas made the remarks on World Water Day, which is celebrated annually on March […]
Read more »Yemen’s Aquifers To Run Dry By 2030
March 26th, 2024
Via Green Prophet, a report on Yemen’s water crisis: The Yemeni Houthis are a problem as they blow up ships passing through the Red Sea toward the manmade Suez Canal. The Houthis astarving out their own people. They use water as a weapon in their war against the west. In a recent UN report by UN […]
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