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Water Scarcity Could Impact West Asian Credit Ratings
June 13th, 2016
Via Inter Press Service, an interesting look at how water shortage potentially could have more impact on sovereign credit ratings than natural catastrophes: Water scarcity, conflict and refugee exodus is the strongest megatrend in West Asia, indicating the status of current trends and how these factors may shape the future, according to UN Environment Programme’s […]
Read more »Venezuela: How a Water Crisis Brought A Country To Its Knees
June 7th, 2016
Via The Conversation, an interesting look at the role of water in Venezuela’s current national crisis: Venezuela is experiencing critical shortages, prompting concerns that a humanitarian crisis will engulf this oil-rich South American country. Food, medicine, money, electricity and water are all either rationed or unavailable, as Nicolas Maduro’s government confronts deep recession and drought. The halving of […]
Read more »Troubled Waters: The World’s Thirsty Future
May 25th, 2016
Via the Pacific Standard, a sobering look at the future of global water tensions where – amid population booms and more extreme weather – rising demand—not supply shortages—will be the main driver of water stress: North America The Ogallala aquifer provides nearly one-third of the groundwater used for irrigation in the United States. In 2013, […]
Read more »Running Dry: ‘Lack Of Awareness’ Risks Abu Dhabi Water Reserves
May 15th, 2016
Via The National, a sobering report on the UAE’s water consumption trends: Natural water reserves in Abu Dhabi will be exhausted within 50 years because residents are unaware that they are using too much, a new study says. Underground aquifers must be allowed to replenish or they will be dry by about 2066, said Prof […]
Read more »“The Third World War Will be About Water”
May 13th, 2016
Via the Carnegie Council, commentary on the risk of water related turmoil in the future: In 2015, NASA’s satellite data revealed that 21 of the world’s 37 large aquifers are severely water-stressed. With growing populations, and increased demands from agriculture and industry, researchers indicated that this crisis is only likely to worsen. Rajendra Singh, known as the […]
Read more »Could A Lack Of Water Cause Wars?
May 4th, 2016
Via Scientific American, a look at whether water scarcity poses a greater risk of turmoil under global warming: Water scarcity is expected to increase globally as populations boom and climate change sharpens uncertainty around the resource’s availability, according to a report by the World Bank. The conclusion adds to a growing body of research, and […]
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