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Cape Town’s Day Zero: First Of Many Ahead Worldwide?
May 11th, 2018
Via the Global Policy Journal, commentary on lessons that other cities around the world may glean from Cape Town’s water crisis: Four million lives could hang in the balance, but how Cape Town responds to her water crisis could set the example for cities around the world. Three years of continued drought in Cape Town, South Africa has nearly […]
Read more »A Balkan Dam Boom Imperils Europe’s Wildest Rivers
May 8th, 2018
Via Yale’s e360, a look at how residents and conservationists are fighting back against a wave of thousands of hydroelectric projects that would block pristine, free-flowing rivers in the Balkan Peninsula, one of Europe’s most undeveloped regions: Day and night, visitors to the mountain village of Kruš?ica in central Bosnia and Herzegovina — a speck […]
Read more »Mozambique’s Water Crisis
April 12th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, a report on Mozambique’s water crisis: South-western Mozambique is on the brink of a water crisis. Due to the El Niño phenomenon, Mozambique has recently experienced higher than average temperatures and decreased levels of rainfall. The possibility of a water crisis, as already seen in parts of South Africa, could put […]
Read more »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 […]
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