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Three International Water Conflicts to Watch
October 11th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Monitor, a report on three international water conflicts to watch: International water conflicts are a prisoner’s dilemma fundamentally rooted in geopolitics. Neither up nor downriver states can live without it, and water is the lifeblood of development and economic growth. Yet one (upriver) state has a fundamental advantage over the other (downriver) state. All […]
Read more »Why Don’t We Just Fix The Colorado River Crisis By Piping In Water From The East?
October 10th, 2024
Via KUNM, commentary on the idea of fixing the Colorado River crisis by piping in water from the East: The Colorado River is a lifeline for about 40 million people across the Southwest. It supplies major cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Denver and a multibillion-dollar agriculture industry that puts food on tables across the […]
Read more »Somalia Accuses Ethiopia Of ‘Deliberately Releasing Water’ To Cause Flooding
October 4th, 2024
Via The Addis Standard, an article on Somalia’s president’s accusations that Ethiopia is ‘deliberately releasing water’ to cause flooding: Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has accused Ethiopia of “deliberately releasing water from reservoirs at dams upstream” to cause flooding in Somalia, escalating tensions between the two Horn of Africa nations. In an interview with The Economist on […]
Read more »Arizona Tribes’ Long Fight for Share of Colorado River Water Nears Resolution in Congress
October 3rd, 2024
Via Prescott News, an article on the Arizona tribes’ long fight for share of Colorado River water: Seven states that rely on the Colorado River each got a cut of its water under a deal struck over a century ago – a deal that excluded the Hopi, the Navajo and other tribal nations. After years […]
Read more »Glen Canyon Dam: Facing Dead Pool
October 2nd, 2024
Via The Land Desk, a look at the crisis facing Glen Canyon Dam: In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. But when we got to Cortez, the road was barricaded. Hours earlier, three men had stolen a water-tanker truck and killed […]
Read more »Stark Before-and-After Photos Reveal Dramatic Shrinking of Major Amazon Rivers
September 30th, 2024
Via CNN, stark before-and-after pictures reveal dramatic shrinking of major Amazon rivers Huge tributaries that feed the mighty Amazon River — the largest on the planet — have plunged to record-low levels, upending lives, stranding boats, and threatening endangered dolphins as drought grips Brazil. The country is currently enduring its worst drought since records began in 1950, […]
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