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Desalination Could Give The Middle East Water Without Damaging Marine Life – If Managed Carefully
January 19th, 2023
Via The Conversation, commentary on the role desalination can play in addressing Middle Eastern water scarcity: More than 2 billion people live in “water stressed” countries. These are territories where more than 25% of the available freshwater resources are withdrawn for human use each year. Desalination – the process of removing salt from seawater – is increasingly being used […]
Read more »Arizona’s Dry Wells Not Saudi Arabia’s Fault
January 19th, 2023
Via Green Prophet, commentary on private companies pumping Arizona’s groundwater: If you are following American media, Arizona’s water is running worryingly low. You might think it’s a local story but it’s really your story too. It’s one about local resources and who should own them. In dry Arizona, residents are cutting back, collecting rainwater in buckets […]
Read more »Wells Run Dry In US Southwest As Foreign-Owned Farms Guzzle Water To feed Cattle Overseas
November 7th, 2022
Via CNN, an article on how wells are running dry in drought-weary Southwest as foreign-owned farms guzzle water to feed cattle overseas: Workers with the water district in Wenden, Arizona, saw something remarkable last year as they slowly lowered a camera into the drought-stricken town’s well: The water was moving. But the aquifer which sits below the […]
Read more »How Water Strategizing is Remaking the Middle East
November 1st, 2022
Via The Wilson Center, a new report on how water strategizing is remaking the Middle East: For years, many Middle Eastern states have engaged in high-stakes, if generally haphazard, forms of water strategizing. Intent on guaranteeing their water futures amid fluctuations in access—and periodic scarcity, these countries have adopted unique and varyingly successful approaches to […]
Read more »Middle East Warming Up 2X As Fast As Rest Of World
September 9th, 2022
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on how the Middle East is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world: Temperatures in the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean are rising almost twice as fast as the rest of the world, according to a new study, with far-reaching consequences for the health and […]
Read more »Egypt Hopes Gulf Mediation Will Help Resolve Nile Dam Dispute
July 8th, 2022
Via Al Monitor, an article on how Egypt has intensified its contacts with Gulf countries to mobilize support in the GERD file, although statements and public support may not be enough to pressure Ethiopia back to the negotiation table: As part of its moves against Ethiopia’s policies related to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), […]
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