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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 […]
Read more »Global Water Grabbing
February 7th, 2023
Via Ozy, a look at the concept of ‘water grabbing’: Imagine being told you couldn’t fish in a local stream or swim in your favorite watering hole because an international firm had purchased nearby land. That’s happening to people all over the world, and in some cases it’s a matter of life and death, giving […]
Read more »Satellite Data Shows Sustained Severe Drought In Europe
January 26th, 2023
Via Terra Daily, a report on new satellite data that shows sustained severe drought in Europe: Europe has been experiencing a severe drought for years. Across the continent, groundwater levels have been consistently low since 2018, even if extreme weather events with flooding temporarily give a different picture. The beginning of this tense situation is […]
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