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The Next Dust Bowl
November 18th, 2011
Two interesting articles on threat of a coming Dust-Bowlification from Think Progress. The first reflects on a recent IPCC study that – according to Joseph Romm – hints at Dust-Bowlification, but is mostly silent on global warming’s most grave threat to humanity -Â food production: A USA Today (not IPCC) chart emphasizes the risk of […]
Read more »South Asia’s Water (In)Security?
November 7th, 2011
Via India Seminar, an interesting report on Asia’s water security issues: IN today’s era of globalization, the line between critic and hypocrite is increasingly becoming blurred. Single out a problem in a region or country other than one’s own, and risk triggering an immediate, yet understandable, response: Why criticize the problem here, when you face […]
Read more »Water Use Rising Faster Than World Population
October 26th, 2011
Courtesy of Reuters, a worrisome report that water use is rising faster than world population. As the article notes: Like oil in the 20th century, water could well be the essential commodity on which the 21st century will turn. Human beings have depended on access to water since the earliest days of civilization, but with […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Reducing Salt In Its Diet …Beijing Could Have Desalinated Water In Five Years
October 24th, 2011
Via China Daily, a report on Chinese plans to make desalinated seawater may be available for residents of Beijing within five years and use this as a main supply source in efforts to deal with the water shortage. As the article notes: The project, which desalinates seawater from the Bohai Bay and transports it to […]
Read more »High & Dry: Why The World May Be Running Out Of Clean Water
October 19th, 2011
Via Time, a report on the Pacific Institute’s recently released seventh volume of The World’s Water: Earlier this month, officials in the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu had to confront a pretty dire problem: they were running out of water. Due to a severe and lasting drought, water reserves in this country of 11,000 […]
Read more »Water Management, Agriculture, and Population Growth in The Middle East
October 8th, 2011
Via New Security Beat, a look at Middle Eastern water challenges: In terms of groundwater depletion, “Yemen and Gaza are probably the two places worst off in the Middle East,†Aaron Wolf told ECSP in a recent interview. Wolf, a water expert and geography professor at Oregon State University, said population growth across the broader […]
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