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Preventing Conflicts over Transboundary Dams
January 11th, 2025
Via International Water Power and Dam Construction, an article on how the planning, development, and management of dams in transboundary basins needs to be governed in an effective and cooperative manner to ensure limited negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts, and the mitigation of any potential conflict. The construction of dams within transboundary basins can lead […]
Read more »Climate Change—and Complacency—Is Drying Up the Caspian Sea
January 11th, 2025
Via World Politics Review, a look at how climate change – and complacency – is drying up the Caspian Sea: The Caspian Sea is a geographical marvel and a critical resource for the five countries—Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan—that border it. But the future of the world’s largest enclosed inland body of water is […]
Read more »Saving the Great Salt Lake by Rebalancing Its Water Budget
January 9th, 2025
Via Sustainable Waters, commentary on a new approach to save Great Salt Lake: In recent years I’ve had the great fortune to be able to work with some amazing teams of researchers to explore the causes of water scarcity across many geographies, including the Colorado River, the Rio Grande, the Western US, and around the globe. Importantly, we’ve gone […]
Read more »Hay Is Sucking Great Salt Lake Dry
January 7th, 2025
Via The Land Desk, a look at a new study which finds that cattle-feed irrigation is primary culprits in the Great Salt Lake’s shrinkage Detail from an 1852 map of the Great Salt Lake by J.W. Gunnison and Charles Preuss. As we traveled, the valley spread into an uncanny immensity unlike the other landscapes we […]
Read more »Asia’s Appetite For Sand Is Consuming Its Rivers and Seas
January 5th, 2025
Via South China Morning Post, a report on the environmental consequences of sand mining particularly across Asia where rivers are shrinking, coastlines eroding and ecosystems unravelling: Asia’s construction boom is driving a global scramble for sand, a critical resource. Last month, the Philippine coastguard discovered 13 undocumented Chinese workers aboard a dredger ship in Mariveles off the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Pushes Ahead with Huge – and Controversial – Dam in Tibet
December 26th, 2024
Via the Washington Post, a report that Beijing has approved plans to dam a gorge in the Himalayas that is three times as deep as the Grand Canyon, despite concerns about the impact on Tibet and India: Chinese authorities are pressing ahead with plans to build a series of enormous hydropower dams across a gorge […]
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