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World Entered New Era of ‘Water Bankruptcy’
January 20th, 2026
Via The Washington Post, an article on a new UN report in which researchers say the world’s parched condition is not merely a temporary crisis, but a permanent failure that requires rethinking the world’s approach to water scarcity: Climate change, pollution and decades of overuse have pushed the world into a state of “water bankruptcy,” […]
Read more »We’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
December 14th, 2025
Via Wired, a thoughtful look at while fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded, experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think: Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of AI. Hao had written that a proposed Google […]
Read more »Violence Over Water Resources Reaches Record Levels
December 8th, 2025
Via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, an article on the growing evidence that climate change is worsening the severity of extreme floods and droughts, contributing to the global increase in water violence: On November 28, 2024, Russian missile attacks cut water and electricity to 280,000 people in the Rivne region of Ukraine. On the same day, thousands of […]
Read more »Europe’s Water Reserves Drying Up Due to Climate Breakdown
November 29th, 2025
Via The Guardian, a report on new scientific studies which find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications: Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to […]
Read more »The Global Groundwater Crisis and Implications for Food, Water, Pollution, and Social Unrest
November 23rd, 2025
Via Climate Water Project, a look at the big groundwater crisis which some believe will lead to significant global food, water, pollution, and social unrest: I was mesmerized listening to John Cherry talk about groundwater, so absorbed that I didn’t notice that two hours had gone by. With lucid clarity, he laid bare the massive […]
Read more »Climate Wars: How a Warming Planet is heating up Global Tensions
November 22nd, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, commentary on how a warming planet is heating up global tensions: At the end of 2023, 75.9 million people were living in internal displacement, a record high, with nearly half in Africa alone. By 2050, the World Bank projects that 216 million more could be forced to move within their own countries, […]
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