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Confronting the Global Water Crisis
April 7th, 2023
Via Project Syndicate, an article on how water-related challenges – whether there is too much or too little, or whether it is dirty and unsafe – are already fueling chronic food and health insecurity in entire regions: The world’s water crisis can no longer be ignored. Unless we manage water properly, we will neither tackle […]
Read more »Global Fresh Water Demand Will Outstrip Supply By 40% By 2030
April 7th, 2023
Via The Guardian, an article on a recent report that global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030: The world is facing an imminent water crisis, with demand expected to outstrip the supply of fresh water by 40% by the end of this decade, experts have said on the eve of a crucial […]
Read more »Tracking Conflict and Cooperation Over the World’s International Freshwater Resources
April 7th, 2023
Via New Security Beat, a report on tracking conflict and cooperation over the world’s international freshwater resources: Waters that cross international political borders can drive the countries that share them to conflict—or encourage cooperation between them. Indeed, since the 1940s, overall trends point to a tendency for countries to cooperate over shared water resources, which […]
Read more »World Water Gap In Pictures
April 7th, 2023
Courtesy of National Geographic, an excellent look at the world water gap since 1980: Human water consumption has soared. In some part 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 […]
Read more »Water-Trading Deals Are the New Normal. Trade Law Isn’t Keeping Up
February 14th, 2023
Via World Politics Review, commentary on water trading: Five years ago, in April 2018, headlines around the world called attention to South Africa’s impending “Day Zero”—the day when water levels in the dams supplying Cape Town were projected to fall below the minimum capacity required to keep water running across the city. The hydraulic apocalypse never arrived, due […]
Read more »The Ripple Effect: Water Politics in a Global Context
February 12th, 2023
Via Stanford, a recording of an interesting exploration of crises of water around the globe—the flooding of Pakistan, the depletion of aquifers in the American Great Plains, among others which gives rise to the question: what does climate justice action entail for the communities who are least responsible for anthropogenic climate disaster and yet often bear […]
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