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Water: A Precious Natural Resource Under Pressure
January 1st, 2021
Via Brahma Chellaney, commentary on water scarcity: The global shock brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its major economic and social disruptions, has ensured that 2020 will go down in history as a watershed year. Researchers believe that the impact of the pandemic has set in motion higher rates of birth, divorce, obesity, depression, bankruptcy, […]
Read more »Water Scarcity: An Understated Global Security Risk
December 16th, 2020
Via Harvard Law School’s National Security Journal, commentary on global water scarcity: The Industrial Revolutions improved living standards for people in most nations where technology proliferated.[1] Populations in modern societies are not overly concerned with accessing food or water on a daily basis. In particular, the availability of clean, fresh water is a reasonable expectation throughout […]
Read more »2020 National Intelligence Council Memorandum on Global Water Insecurity Released
December 4th, 2020
Via Peter Gleick, commentary on the 2020 National Intelligence Council Memorandum on Global Water Insecurity: On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 116-92), including the Intelligence Authorization Act of FY2020. Section 6722 of that law required a report be prepared on the national security effects of “global […]
Read more »Severe Drought In South America
November 6th, 2020
Via Smart Water Magazine, an article on South America’s drought: Large parts of South America are in the grip of a serious drought. Signs of the drought began to appear in satellite gravimetry observations of southeastern Brazil in mid-2018 and had spread into parts of Paraguay, Bolivia, and northern Argentina by 2020. “This is the second most intense drought in […]
Read more »Central Asia Risks Becoming A Hyper-Arid Desert In Near Future
October 31st, 2020
Via The Conversation, a report on water stress in Central Asia: Around 34 million years ago, sudden climate change caused ecological breakdown in Central Asia. This ancient event, triggered by rapid drops in temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide, permanently affected biological diversity in the region. Large areas of Mongolia, (geographic) Tibet and north-western China suddenly […]
Read more »The Middle East: Thirsty For Solutions To Water Scarcity
October 3rd, 2020
Via The Emirates’ The National newspaper, a report on water scarcity in the MENA region: Water scarcity is a subject that has been given enough attention in the Mena region, where it is a serious problem. Its availability has always been a concern, particularly in the Arab world, whose population of more than 360 million […]
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