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Dry Spells Fuel Water Worries In Tokyo
April 5th, 2018
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at Tokyo’s water worries: Although Tokyo generally enjoys plentiful rainfall, the Japanese megacity could soon face water shortages. Tokyo’s rains are concentrated in two months of monsoon and two of typhoon. If rainfall is below-average during one of these periods, then the city faces the beginnings of drought. […]
Read more »Avocado Town Becomes Symbol Of Chile’s Water War
April 5th, 2018
Via Terra Daily, a report on water tensions in Chile: Karina Torres has spent more than seven years without running water in her home in central Chile. Yet, across the road, water flows in abundance to irrigate thousands of hectares of avocados. It’s one of the paradoxes of this South American country’s push for progress. […]
Read more »Asia’s Looming Water Crisis
April 2nd, 2018
Via LinkedIn, a sobering brief on Asia’s water insecurity: Water shortages are set to grow ever more severe in Asia and could prove overwhelming for water-intense operations in the region. The UN reports that by 2050 at least 4.6 billion people globally could live in areas regularly suffering water-scarcity; and up to 96% of those […]
Read more »Water Shortages Could Affect 5 Billion People By 2050
March 21st, 2018
Via The Guardian, an article on a new UN reoprt looking at the impact of water scarcity on the global population: More than 5 billion people could suffer water shortages by 2050 due to climate change, increased demand and polluted supplies, according to a UN report on the state of the world’s water. The comprehensive […]
Read more »Transaqua Canal: Proposed Solution To Lake Chad Crisis
March 2nd, 2018
Via Terra Daily, a report on a proposed engineering solution to the Lake Chad crisis: It sounds like something from Wakanda, the futuristic African kingdom of the hit movie “Black Panther”. But “Transaqua” is a very real proposal for a very real problem — how to replenish the shrinking waters of Lake Chad. It imagines […]
Read more »Africa’s Manmade Water Crisis
February 20th, 2018
Via Project Syndicate, commentary on how the imminent shutdown of Cape Town’s piped water network should serve as a wake-up call for all of Africa to overhaul urban water-management systems but may not: About a decade ago, at a meeting of South African mayors convened by Lindiwe Hendricks, South Africa’s then-minister of water and environmental […]
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