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Preventing Water-Related Conflict to Promote US National Security and Build Global Stability
November 10th, 2025
Via Council on Strategic Risks, a report on water-related conflict through the lens of U.S. national security and global stability: Executive Summary Increasing global water stress poses a threat to both human and national security, making it essential to address these challenges to protect US national security and promote global stability. Primary Observations: The world […]
Read more »Water Scarcity Is Emerging As A $300 Billion Market Risk
October 21st, 2025
Via Forbes, a report on how water scarcity is now being viewed as a market risk: Droughts and disrupted harvests are no longer just weather events — they are early warnings of the financial consequences of global water insecurity. This summer brought severe strain across key agricultural regions. By mid-May 2025, more than half of […]
Read more »UN Calls for Democratization of Fresh Water
October 21st, 2025
As reported by Circle of Blue, in a report presented last week to the United Nations, Pedro Arrojo Agudo, the special rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, called for the democratization of fresh water and urged governments around the world to abandon the resource’s commodification and privatization. “We are not […]
Read more »Peak Groundwater Withdrawals
October 11th, 2025
Via AGU Earth’s Futures publication, new research detailing the world’s arrival at ‘peak’ groundwater withdrawals: Abstract “Peak Groundwater” is the maximum withdrawal rate of groundwater from an aquifer system that precedes a decline in withdrawals resulting from aquifer depletion. This paper traces generalizable phases in groundwater-withdrawal regimes in individual aquifer systems and their associated impacts […]
Read more »Scientists Predict Extreme Global Water Shortages by 2100
September 24th, 2025
Via Gizmodo, a report on new research that suggests climate change could leave 74% of the world’s drought-prone regions at high risk of severe and prolonged droughts by the end of the century: Earth’s climate and its water are inextricably linked—one cannot exist without the other. As the climate undergoes unprecedented, human-driven change, the global […]
Read more »Humanity Is Rapidly Depleting Water and Much of the World Is Getting Drier
September 7th, 2025
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, a look at how much of the world is getting drier: New research based on 22 years of satellite data shows vast areas of the world are losing fresh water and getting drier. These regions include much of the American West, Mexico, Central America and the Middle East. The […]
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