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Water Scarcity: A Global Economic And Security Threat
November 30th, 2015
Via the Globe and Mail, an article on the world’s global water crisis: Conflict over scarce water resources is as old as human history, but in the 21st century, rapidly rising demand for water and threats to supply pose nightmarish risks for people around the globe. The U.S. Defence Department, United Nations’ agencies and the […]
Read more »Blue Planet, Thirsty World
November 22nd, 2015
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, an interesting report on some innovative ways to help meet’s the world’s rising water demand: When seen from space, the earth is a blue gem, a water planet. But when it comes to the amount of its water that humans can actually drink—a mere one percent of the total—it is an increasingly […]
Read more »Investors Are Mining For Water: The Next Hot Commodity
September 25th, 2015
Via The New York Times, an interesting article on investing in water: Drip-irrigated lemon orchards at the Cadiz water project in the Mojave Desert. CreditMonica Almeida/The New York Times Gazing out of a turboprop high above his company’s main asset — 34,000 acres in the Mojave Desert with billions of gallons of fresh water locked deep […]
Read more »Impact Of Central American Drought
September 2nd, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of the impact of Central America’s drought on the region and migration: Central America and the Caribbean are in the midst of a drought that is impacting Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Hispaniola and Cuba. Agricultural output has been hit hard, complicated by the fact that the region is […]
Read more »Middle East: Facing Water Shortages For Next 25 Years
August 31st, 2015
Via The Guardian, a look at how rising population and dwindling water supplies will affect millions of people and exacerbate conflict in the Middle East in the decades ahead: Water supplies across the Middle East will deteriorate over 25 years, threatening economic growth and national security and forcing more people to move to already overcrowded […]
Read more »Ranking The World’s Most Water-Stressed Countries In 2040
August 31st, 2015
Via the World Resources Institute, an interesting ranking on future water stress—a measure of competition and depletion of surface water—in 167 countries by 2020, 2030, and 2040: The world’s demand for water is likely to surge in the next few decades. Rapidly growing populations will drive increased consumption by people, farms and companies. More people will move […]
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