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Drought and Unrest Push Residents Out of Central America’s Dry Corridor
August 23rd, 2019
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on the impact of drought in Central America: Residents of Central America’s Dry Corridor are at a crossroads: stay in the drought-stricken region, where food insecurity and violence are rampant, or migrate. Running along the Pacific Coast, the Dry Corridor includes parts of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and […]
Read more »MENA Region Among Most Water Stressed
August 18th, 2019
Via World Resources Institute, a graphical look at the world’s national water stress rankings, where twelve of the seventeen most water-stressed areas are in the Middle East and North Africa region:
Read more »The Developing World’s Water Crisis
August 16th, 2019
Via The Asia Times, a report on a recent study that shows 15 cities in South Asia, Africa and South America shows where water is inaccessible and unaffordable: Developing economies across Asia, Africa and South America, known as the Global South, are steadily running out of drinking water and accessing what is available is blowing a […]
Read more »17 Countries, Home to One-Quarter of the World’s Population, Face Extremely High Water Stress
August 6th, 2019
Via the World Resources Institute, a look at the regions of the world facing extreme water stress: Once-unthinkable water crises are becoming commonplace. Reservoirs in Chennai, India’s sixth-largest city, are nearly dry right now. Last year, residents of Cape Town, South Africa narrowly avoided their own “Day Zero” water shut-off. And the year before that, Rome rationed water to […]
Read more »Beyond Water Wars?
July 29th, 2019
Courtesy of The Wilson Quarterly, an interesting look at that, while dire predictions of nations battling over water have not come true, the most bitter conflicts over water are closer to home: Former World Bank Vice-President Ismail Serageldin predicted in 1995 that “the wars of the next century will be about water.” It was a […]
Read more »How Climate Change Can Fuel Wars
June 6th, 2019
Courtesy of The Economist, commentary on the fact that droughts are already making conflict more likely and – as the world gets hotter – mayhem could spread: On the outskirts of Baga Sola, a small town in Chad not far from the border with Nigeria, is a refugee camp called Dar es Salaam. The name […]
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