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Colorado River: Solving Water Crises Begins With Good Data
March 29th, 2024
Via Sustainable Waters, an insightful look at – with negotiations over future allocations of water from the Colorado River (southwestern US) contentious and intensifying – anew study providing comprehensive accounting for all uses of the river’s water can aid design of strategies for bringing use back into balance with available supplies: The Colorado River in […]
Read more »Water Level of Caspian Sea Falling at Accelerating Rate
March 28th, 2024
Via Window on Eurasia, an article on the Caspian Sea: The water level of the Caspian Sea is falling at an accelerating rate, raising the specter not that that inland sea is going to go the way of the Aral anytime soon but rather that lower water levels will complicate the lives of littoral states […]
Read more »Las Vegas Is Going All In on Its Water Conservation Plan
March 26th, 2024
Via Smithsonian Magazine, an article on how Las Vegas – as the Southwest dries – a city notorious for excess find a way to survive with less: Anything goes in Las Vegas, except excessive water use. Two decades ago, the city began to grapple with a reality that many other cities in the Southwest were trying to […]
Read more »China Changes Tack on Water Politics
March 21st, 2024
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report on how – long a source of tension with its neighbors – China’s transboundary rivers are opening opportunities for regional cooperation: Sixteen major rivers originate in China that supply fresh water to nearly 3 billion people in 14 Asian countries – more than a third of the world’s population. As “Asia’s […]
Read more »Mekong River: Future of Water Cooperation In The Region
March 21st, 2024
Via China Water Risk, an interesting interview on the Mekong River Commission Secretariat which discusses the organisation’s priorities, the changing landscape of the Mekong River & the future of water cooperation in the region: In this interview we sit down with Dr. Anoulak Kittikoun, CEO of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat (MRC) to discuss the organisation’s priorities, […]
Read more »Can U.S and Mexico Secure Water Supplies in Shrinking Rio Grande?
March 20th, 2024
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at the need to change the 80-year-old water treaty between the U.S. and Mexico to accommodate the drying climate: Reservoirs sink to record lows. Farmers lament shortage of water for irrigation. Senior officials, buffeted by partisan disruption, haggle over the terms of new management plans. These scenes define […]
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