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Securing Africa’s Future Water Needs
February 5th, 2026
Via the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a report on Africa’s future water needs: Africa’s water systems are in crisis. From the Sahel to South Africa, 845 million people lack safely managed drinking water, and over 900 million do not have access to safely managed sanitation services. The consequences of this water insecurity […]
Read more »Water Cooperation is Under Threat
February 3rd, 2026
Via the Stimson Center’s New Security Beat, a look at how global water cooperation is under threat: Rivers, lakes, and aquifers ignore borders and politics, binding countries, people, and ecosystems together. This shared reality has long required cooperation, even among states divided by tensions or conflict. Through technical dialogue, data sharing, and joint institutions, countries […]
Read more »Rivers of Death
January 26th, 2026
Via Circle of Blue, a report on catastrophic condition of many of the world’s most important rivers: The rivers that are the lifeblood of the planet and of human civilisation are dying. Worldwide, the evidence is unequivocal, massive, unchallengeable. Humans are hastening to destroy their main source of food, drink, nature and community, as fast […]
Read more »Dramatic Rise In Water-Related Violence Since 2022
January 23rd, 2026
Via The Guardian, an article on how the climate crisis, corruption and lack or misuse of infrastructure are among factors driving water conflicts: Water-related violence has almost doubled since 2022 and little is being done to understand and address the trend and prevent new and escalating risks, experts have said. There were 419 incidents of […]
Read more »World Entered New Era of ‘Water Bankruptcy’
January 20th, 2026
Via The Washington Post, an article on a new UN report in which researchers say the world’s parched condition is not merely a temporary crisis, but a permanent failure that requires rethinking the world’s approach to water scarcity: Climate change, pollution and decades of overuse have pushed the world into a state of “water bankruptcy,” […]
Read more »We’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
December 14th, 2025
Via Wired, a thoughtful look at while fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded, experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think: Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of AI. Hao had written that a proposed Google […]
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