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Lake Mead May Go Dry By 2021: “We are beyond the sustainable limit of the Colorado system”
February 13th, 2008
According to a recent study as reported by CNET News, there is a 50 percent chance that Lake Mead – created by the Hoover Dam and the Colorado River – will go dry by 2021 because of escalating human demand and climate change. As noted by the authors: “Today, we are at or beyond the […]
Read more »Water Politics in the Horn of Africa & The Rest of the Continent
February 6th, 2008
Our recent post related to Lake Victoria encouraged us to look more closely at water politics in the Horn of Africa, and we came across this interesting analysis of the Jubba and Shabelle river basins which are located in this water scarce region also fraught with recurrent droughts, devastating floods, a growing population, interlocking conflicts, […]
Read more »Looming Water Supply Crises: Future Water Availability – Winners and Losers
February 5th, 2008
As reported by Terra Daily, a prominent group of hydrologists and climatologists writing in Science magazine argue that climate change has already dramatically altered the water cycle and these changes signal a looming water supply crisis. As the article notes, a picture of future water availability gainers and losers can be projected: “…Our best current […]
Read more »New Threat To Lake Victoria: Need for Improved Multiparty Lakeshore Management
February 3rd, 2008
As noted in Terra Daily, two hydroelectricity dams appear to be threatening the health of Lake Victoria – and of the people living along its shores who depend on the lake for food. A new study suggests that the dams’ systematic overuse of water has decreased the lake level by at least two meters between […]
Read more »A 21st Century “Chinatown” – Reid Holds a Royal Flush for Las Vegas Water Supplies
January 24th, 2008
A fascinating article in the February issue of Portfolio magazine, detailing Harry Reid’s — the Democrats’ United States Senate leader — support of developers and pit miners in his home state of Nevada, where runaway growth portends a ruinous water crisis and a threatened desert ecosystem. In a story that conjures up memories of Los […]
Read more »The Drying of the American West – A Wellspring of Future Water Wars
January 22nd, 2008
As we have discussed previously, the U.S. West is facing a myriad of water resource issues. In an excellent article, National Geographic recently analyzed the “drying of the American West”, focusing particularly on the decreasing flow of the Colorado River and the fact that the 20th century — the century when Americans built an incredible […]
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