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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 […]
Read more »Growing Water Scarcity in Utah
August 12th, 2023
Via Food & Water Watch, a look at Utah’s water scarcity challenge: Utah faces serious threats from climate change, with the Great Salt Lake especially at risk. As climate change intensifies and the state’s population skyrockets, the lake has already shrunk by two-thirds since the late 1980s and is expected to shrink even more. This […]
Read more »Visualizing the Global Population by Water Security Levels
August 11th, 2023
Courtesy of the Visual Capitalist, an insightful graphical visualization of the global population by water security levels: Visualizing the Global Population by Water Security Levels Most of the world’s population today lives in countries facing critical water security issues. Dealing with issues such as declining freshwater availability, demand from growing populations, insufficient infrastructure, or flawed water […]
Read more »Water Wars: Cooling the Data Centers
August 10th, 2023
Via International Policy Digest, a report on data centers’ growing use of water: Water. Data centres. The continuous, pressing need to cool the latter, which houses servers to store and process data, with the former, which is becoming ever more precious in the climate crisis. Hardly a good comingling of factors. Like planting cotton in […]
Read more »Transforming the Economics and Governance of Water
August 10th, 2023
Via The Wire China, commentary on how water-related crises around the world show that current systems are unsuited for a world altered by global warming: The floods, droughts, heatwaves, and fires that are devastating many parts of the world underscore two fundamental facts. First, damage to freshwater supplies is increasingly straining human societies, especially the […]
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