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Jackson Water Crisis: A Legacy of Environmental Racism?
September 4th, 2022
Via BBC, a look at the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis which some feel may be a legacy of environmental racism: Marshall lives in west Jackson, in the US state of Mississippi – a predominantly black and poor part of the city. He has no choice but to drink the tap water that Jackson residents have been […]
Read more »From Sun Belt to Dust Belt: Can U.S. Desert States Stave Off Their Decline?
September 1st, 2022
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an article on the precarious future of the U.S. southwest: The desert Sun Belt states of Arizona and Nevada have seen some of the fastest growth in the United States for the past half century, but if climate projections are accurate, that growth might turn into a decline as temperatures […]
Read more »America’s Water Future Cannot Be Won Without Changing America’s Farms
September 1st, 2022
Via Washington Post, commentary on the role that American agriculture will need to play in addressing the U.S.’s water scarce future: The Rev. William Dodd was not above making the occasional fraudulent loan application, which is how he wound up in London’s Tyburn Prison in 1777 under sentence of death. An unusually eloquent plea for mercy, supposedly […]
Read more »As Colorado River Dries, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis
August 25th, 2022
Via Pro Publica, a report on how the megadrought gripping the U.S. western states is only part of the problem – alternative sources of water are also imperiled, and the nation’s food along with it: The western United States is, famously, in the grips of its worst megadrought in a millennium. The Colorado River, which […]
Read more »Record River Lows Across China, US and Europe Sap Economies
August 20th, 2022
Courtesy of the Financial Times, an article on the economic impact that drought is having upon China, U.S., and Europe: Factories grinding to a halt, crops devastated, cargo ships forced to carry smaller loads and millions facing a risk of blackouts — these are just some of the drastic consequences of record low river levels […]
Read more »Less Water, More People: A Growing Challenge for the Driest U.S. Counties
August 20th, 2022
Via the Economic Innovation Group, a look at the challenge presented by less water and more people in the driest counties in the United States: With reservoirs in the southwestern United States at record-low levels and the effects of prolonged drought conditions being felt from agriculture to development, one of the most far-reaching questions over the coming […]
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