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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 […]
Read more »Can We Desalinate Water without All the Mess?
August 6th, 2023
Via Hakai Magazine, a report on a a new generation of small, modular, mobile, wave-powered devices that is looking to tackle desalination’s biggest problems head-on: In May 2022, California officials unanimously rejected a plan to build a US $1.4-billion desalination plant in Huntington Beach. The plant, the officials said, would produce costly water and possibly […]
Read more »Need To Re-think Global Water Storage As the Demand For Water Rises
August 4th, 2023
Via IWMI, a look at the need to re-think global water storage: As Europe swelters in unprecedented summer heat, water stress is a major and growing concern. The same is true for many places across the globe. The need for more water storage is obvious but simply building more dams is not the solution. Growing populations […]
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