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India Ensuring ‘Not a Single Drop of Water’ Flows into Pakistan after Suspending Major River-Sharing Treaty
June 16th, 2026
Via The Independent, an article on India’s announcement that it will suspend decades-old river-sharing treaty with Pakistan: India is working to stop water from flowing into its neighbour Pakistan after suspending a major river-sharing treaty between the two Asian rivals last year, a senior minister has said. India last year suspended the 1960 Indus Water treaty with Pakistan following an attack […]
Read more »Tensions Are Rising Between States That Rely on the Colorado River
June 15th, 2026
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on what a prolonged drought means the nation’s largest reservoirs are dwindling, and litigation over access to water could lie ahead: Water in the Colorado River is dwindling to levels that haven’t been seen in decades, and the seven states whose residents and farmers depend on the […]
Read more »The Ogallala Aquifer Is Dying – As The Largest Supply Of Groundwater In The United States Vanishes, Farmers Are Deeply Concerned About What Is Next
June 8th, 2026
Via The Economic Collapse, a sobering look at the accelerating decline of the Ogallala Aquifer: Gigantic underground aquifers are being rapidly depleted all over the world, and once that water is gone it will take a very long time for it to come back. In fact, in some areas of the United States the recharge […]
Read more »Arizona and Nevada Agree to Trade for Desalinated Pacific Ocean Water
June 4th, 2026
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on how a decade-old treatment plant in San Diego County, Calif., could leave more water in the Colorado River for states facing severe shortages: San Diego could sell some of its rights to Colorado River water to Arizona and Nevada under a deal struck Wednesday that could […]
Read more »Sudan’s Water Crisis Worsened by War, But There is Hope
June 3rd, 2026
Via Cairo Review, a look at how – as Sudan continues to face numerous obstacles, including a lack of multilateral governance for hydrological stability – water remains a potential entry point for cooperation domestically, regionally, and internationally: Water has always been an integral component of governance in Sudan, given the country’s location along the Nile […]
Read more »California’s Water Empire: Over 100 Years of Engineering, Extraction and Avoidance
May 28th, 2026
Via SoCal Water Wars, a look at how over a century of aqueducts, reservoirs, and political gambits has left California dependent on costly water systems built to serve growth—not the climate emergency now unfolding: California has more than 2,700 state, federal and local dams and reservoirs, including roughly 300 in Southern California. I include Hoover Dam […]
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