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From Warming To Warfare: How Climate Change and Drought Fuels Global Conflict
August 15th, 2025
Via Illuminem, a look at the road to World War III – how climate change fuels global conflict: The road to World War III may not begin with missiles or ideology. It may begin with water shortages, bread riots, and mass displacement. What if climate change is not just an environmental emergency, but the primary […]
Read more »Groundwater Is Drying Out, Heating Up, and Causing Sea Level Rise
August 6th, 2025
Via Grist, a look at a recent report indicating that overuse of groundwater has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheet: The Verde River is one of the last free-flowing rivers in Arizona, winding through what’s known as the Verde Valley before feeding into […]
Read more »Q&A: Groundwater Loss On A Global Scale
July 30th, 2025
Via Western Water Notes, an interview on global groundwater loss and the alarming drying of Earth’s land surface: The trend plays out in arid regions across the globe. It goes like this. Rivers dry up and water supplies become more variable. Faced with scarce surface water supplies, cities, farms, and companies look to groundwater to […]
Read more »The World Is Entering a Dark New Era of Hydroterrorism
July 18th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how international institutions need to start treating water as a national security flashpoint: Water has long been a tool of warfare, but in recent years, the world has entered a dark new era of hydroterrorism. Around the globe, from Yemen to Ukraine, this critical resource is increasingly being used as a tool […]
Read more »AI Is Draining Water From Areas That Need It Most
May 10th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, an article on AI’s water footprint, particularly in areas already facing water scarcity: Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. The data centers that […]
Read more »Iraq’s Drought-Doomed Farmers Turn To Groundwater To Boost Agriculture
May 2nd, 2025
Via France24, a report on how – Iraqi farmers facing scarce rainfall and repeated droughts – are drilling wells in the desert to reach groundwater sources and sustain their irrigation systems. While the underground reservoirs help mitigate agricultural losses, it is a risky move as aquifers across the world are depleting fast than they replenish. […]
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