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The 11 Cities Most Likely To Run Out of Drinking Water – Like Cape Town
February 11th, 2018
Via the BBC, a list of the 11 cities most likely to run out of drinking water – like Cape Town: Cape Town is in the unenviable situation of being the first major city in the modern era to face the threat of running out of drinking water. However, the plight of the drought-hit South […]
Read more »Groundwater Storage Improves the UAE’s Water Resilience: Could it be a Model for the Middle East?
February 7th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, a report on the United Arab Emirates’ use of groundwater storage to improve resilence: In 2010 it was estimated that the United Arab Emirates had access to a four day reserve supply of fresh water, an amount that was deemed insufficient. To minimise the vulnerabilities in its water supply network, Abu Dhabi, the […]
Read more »The Water Scarcity Problem That’s Destroying Countries
January 31st, 2018
Courtesy of Business Connect, insightful commentary on the world’s water scarcity challenge: Clean water. It’s something almost all of us take for granted. We turn on the tap, fill our cup, let some spill over, and then guzzle it down. It’s a privilege we fail to recognize. There is a colossal water scarcity problem in […]
Read more »Water Shortage: The Number-One World Fisk
October 31st, 2017
Via Raconteur, a report on the world’s growing water crisis: Water is one of the most utilised resources around the world and yet it’s among the least respected. Many of us expect access to this life-giving resource to be a right and that it should cost very little. While some governments subsidise its distribution, others […]
Read more »How Big Water Projects Helped Trigger Africa’s Migrant Crisis
October 17th, 2017
Via Yale’s e360, a report on how major dam and irrigation projects are drying up the wetlands that sustain life in the arid Sahel region of Africa, resulting in a wave of environmental refugees: People in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri gather along the seasonal Ngadda River, which feeds into Lake Chad. The Hadejia-Nguru […]
Read more »Water Shortages Fuel Conflict
October 7th, 2017
Via Nexus Media, a look at how drought amplifies the potential for violence in the developing world: Human survival depends on access to water. It sustains living bodies and nourishes the land. Wars have been waged over water, often called “blue gold,” for centuries. Not surprisingly then, prolonged drought renders societies volatile. When drought strikes a particular […]
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