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Cloud Seeding and the Water Wars of Tomorrow
September 9th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Monitor, a look at the impact of cloud seeding on future water crises: Fueled by the climate crisis and El Niño, 2024 has been a year of global extreme temperatures. Australia suffered a string of heat waves through its summer months and, in February, parts of West Africa reported 50C temperatures that made “time […]
Read more »Water and Climate: Inseparable
September 2nd, 2024
Via The Economist, a reminder of why water and climate are inseparable: Rising temperatures do more than make the world hotter. Widespread weather impacts are one of the reasons why scientists prefer the term “climate change” to “global warming”. But it can be hard to grasp just how connected the climate and the water cycle […]
Read more »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 […]
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