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As Planet Warms, Water Risks Abound
January 12th, 2023
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on how – ahead of a forthcoming World Economic Forum – political forecasters have been issuing water warnings: Water still matters. Last year was evidence that forgotten threats to global prosperity and safety can re-emerge. Covid flared in China as the country abandoned its isolationist policy, a reminder […]
Read more »How Rapid Urbanization in Africa Compounds Water Challenges
January 5th, 2023
Via World Resources Institute, a report on how rapid urbanization in Africa compounds the continent’s water challenges: Africa’s population is growing?faster?than any other continent’s and its urban population is expected to?more than double?by 2050. This urban rapid growth, which is mostly sprawling “horizontal” growth, as the?World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City?shows, is combining […]
Read more »2023 Top Risks: Water Stress
January 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of Eurasia Group, a report that water stress is #10 of 2023’s top global risks: This year, water stress will become a global and systemic challenge … while governments will still treat it as a temporary crisis.In 2022, receding water levels exacerbated the food crisis in Africa, halted shipping and nuclear output in Europe, […]
Read more »Water Conflicts On The Rise
December 3rd, 2022
Via Statista, a graphical report on global water conflicts: The number of water conflicts is increasing in most regions of the world, as shown in this infographic based on data from the Pacific Institute. The hotspot is Asia, which has the highest number of conflicts in absolute terms and the strongest recent growth in conflicts. Only […]
Read more »All Regions Experienced Water Extremes in 2021: UN
November 29th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on world’s water challenges in 2021: All regions of the world saw water extremes last year — both floods and droughts — and billions of people had insufficient freshwater, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Large areas of the planet recorded drier than normal conditions in 2021, the UN’s World […]
Read more »Water Wars: Causes And Possible Solutions
November 26th, 2022
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the prospect of water wars: Will today’s wars over oil be over water in the future? For years this question has been at the heart of a scientific debate on the causes of these wars and how they should be studied. A study published in the prestigious Nature Sustainability by a group […]
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