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Dancing With Water: What Can The World Learn From Japan’s Profoundly Wet History?
August 31st, 2024
Via Aeon, an interesting look at what – as storms, droughts and floods become more intense – the world can learn from Japan’s profoundly wet history? In early June 2018, I landed at Kansai airport in Japan, with a full day of travel ahead. A few hours later, I was sitting on a Shinkansen – […]
Read more »4,000 Years of Conflict Over Water
August 29th, 2024
Via the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a timeline of 4,000 years of conflict over water: On June 6, 2023, bombs hit and destroyed the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine and eliminated its hydropower generation, draining the massive reservoir behind the dam and flooding four cities and several dozen villages downstream (Gleick et al. 2023). The […]
Read more »From Chad To California – Water Crises Cause Dry Wells And Conflicts
August 28th, 2024
Via Forbes, an article on global water crises: Benjamin Franklin once remarked, “When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.” Franklin’s quote serves as a sobering reminder of the importance of water, especially as the world faces an unprecedented crisis of scarcity. Water is essential for life, yet millions around the globe […]
Read more »The Poisonous Global Politics of Water
August 26th, 2024
Via The Economist, a look at the global politics of water: THE WATER thieves come at night. They arrive in trucks, suck water out of irrigation canals and drive off. This infuriates Alejandro Meneses, who owns a big vegetable farm in Coquimbo, a parched province of Chile. In theory, his landholding comes with the right to […]
Read more »The Growing Importance of Desalination
August 26th, 2024
Via Contrary, a deep dive into the booming desalination industry: Why is Desalination Important? About 71% of the Earth is covered in water. While most of that water is found in the ocean, about 2.5% of it is freshwater, which can be used to drink or irrigate crops. However, as climate change begins introducing erratic weather patterns, […]
Read more »Water Pressure: TSMC, Other Corporations Tackle Groundwater Worries in Japan
August 20th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on how TSMC, others tackle groundwater worries in Kumamoto, Japan: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is participating in a program in Japan to preserve groundwater resources by flooding unused paddy fields, amid concerns that its chip factories in Kumamoto prefecture could cause water shortages in the area. Twenty years ago, Teruyuki Otaguro, […]
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