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The Waters Could Claim Nuclear Weapons
July 12th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at how climate change threatens to destabilize critical infrastructure and impact international security: On March 15, 2019, floodwaters breached the gates of Offutt Air Force Base. Two days later, one-third of the base was inundated—and at least $1 billion worth of damage done. Offutt is perhaps best known as […]
Read more »Making The Invisible Visible: Increasing The Visibility of Transboundary Groundwater
July 12th, 2023
Via PLOS, an academic article on transboundary groundwater: Released on World Water Day 2022, the 2022 United Nations World Water Development Report, Groundwater: Making the invisible visible [1], highlights the importance of groundwater in meeting water demands globally. Noted ominously in the report’s short summary is that “this natural resource is often poorly understood, and consequently undervalued, mismanaged and […]
Read more »‘Drought: On Verge of Becoming the Next Pandemic’
July 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The Guardian, an audio long read on how ‘drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’ and, as the world becomes drier, profit and pollution are draining increasingly scarce water resources.
Read more »Water – Weapon of War or Tool For Peace?
July 4th, 2023
Via SIWI, commentary on how the role of water in conflicts is changing, with more attacks against environmental and civilian infrastructure, with a look at how water can be both a weapon and a victim of war – and sometimes a tool for peace: The Kakhovka dam disaster in Ukraine on 6 June is a […]
Read more »Humans Have Used Enough Groundwater To Shift Earth’s Tilt
June 27th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on a recent report that shows how pumping groundwater for drinking and irrigation has had a noticeable effect on the entire planet: Rampant removal of groundwater for drinking and irrigation has altered the distribution of water on Earth enough to shift the planet’s tilt, according to a sweeping new […]
Read more »Global Reservoirs Are Becoming Emptier
June 25th, 2023
Via Eurasia Review, a worrisome report that global reservoirs are becoming emptier: Over the past two decades, global reservoirs have become increasingly empty despite an overall increase in total storage capacity due to the construction of new reservoirs. Led by Dr. Huilin Gao, associate professor in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas […]
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