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Africa’s Vast Underground Water Resources Are Under Pressure From Climate Change
September 7th, 2023
Via Phys.org, an article on Africa’s vast underground water resources which are under pressure from climate change—how to manage them: All countries have a variety of water resources—some are on the surface, like rivers, and some are beneath the ground. This groundwater provides almost 50% of all global domestic use and 43% of all the water used for agriculture. […]
Read more »Mind The Water Gap: Mapping World’s Water Shortages
August 30th, 2023
Via National Geographic, a detailed map of the world’s water shortages: Human water consumption has soared. In some parts of the planet, the demand is greater than rivers or groundwater can sustain. Schoolbooks show a simple picture of the water cycle—water evaporates from the ocean, drifts in clouds over land, falls as rain, flows in […]
Read more »Is Desalination the Answer?
August 22nd, 2023
Via Milken Institute Review, commentary on desalination: Every fifth-grader hooked on adventure stories devours tales of shipwrecked sailors drinking seawater, with fatal results. The nerdy adult version of that adventure might be Saudi Arabia’s fantasies of towing (salt-free) icebergs from Antarctica back in the 1970s. And, of course, if you’re a Californian worried more about […]
Read more »Extreme Water Stress Faced By 25% of World’s Population
August 17th, 2023
Via The Guardian, a report on the extreme water stress faced by countries home to quarter of world population, where twenty-five countries are using 80% of their water supplies each year: Twenty-five countries that are home to a quarter of the world’s population are facing extreme water stress, according to new research. Data from the World […]
Read more »Where Water is Running Out in the World — and Why
August 16th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on where water is running out in the world – and why: A growing population and rising temperatures will strain the world’s freshwater supplies over the next 30 years, jeopardizing available water for drinking, bathing and growing food, according to new research. An analysis of newly released data from the […]
Read more »Water Scarcity Threatening Global Agriculture Faster Than Expected
August 12th, 2023
Courtesy of The Guardian, a report that global heating is likely to impact the world food supply before 1.5C, according to a UN expert: The world is likely to face major disruption to food supplies well before temperatures rise by the 1.5C target, the president of the UN’s desertification conference has warned, as the impacts […]
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