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New Weather Patterns Are Turning Water Into a Weapon
September 5th, 2022
Via Bloomberg, a report on how the melting glaciers of the Himalayas have become a political tool in the tussle between China, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: It’s well below freezing as Renoj Thayyen climbs to the weather station high up in India’s Karakoram mountains, his Koflach boots crunching shin-deep into the snow. The 50-year-old hydrologist […]
Read more »Climate Change Is Ravaging the Colorado River, But There’s a Model to Avert the Worst
September 5th, 2022
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on how water management success in the Yakima River Basin in Washington may hold lessons for the seven states at war over water in the American West: The water managers of the Yakima River basin in arid Central Washington know what it’s like to fight over water, […]
Read more »Vague, Voluntary Proposals Will Not Help The Colorado River
September 4th, 2022
Via Glenwood Springs Post Independent, commentary on the current proposals to help the Colorado River: Water managers in recent weeks have put forth plans for conservation aimed at addressing the water-scarcity crisis on the Colorado River. But the proposals, which are vague and voluntary and lack goals with numbers, will probably do little to get […]
Read more »The Long-Term Water Politics of Ethiopia’s Nile River Mega-Dam
September 2nd, 2022
Via STRATFOR WorldView (subscription required), analysis of the long-term water politics of Ethiopia’s Nile River mega-dam: Ethiopia’s unilateral filling of the dam’s reservoir will worsen water scarcity in Egypt and Sudan, threatening to set a dangerous precedent for regional water politics if the three states do not resume negotiations. Ethiopia completed its third filling of the […]
Read more »From Sun Belt to Dust Belt: Can U.S. Desert States Stave Off Their Decline?
September 1st, 2022
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an article on the precarious future of the U.S. southwest: The desert Sun Belt states of Arizona and Nevada have seen some of the fastest growth in the United States for the past half century, but if climate projections are accurate, that growth might turn into a decline as temperatures […]
Read more »America’s Water Future Cannot Be Won Without Changing America’s Farms
September 1st, 2022
Via Washington Post, commentary on the role that American agriculture will need to play in addressing the U.S.’s water scarce future: The Rev. William Dodd was not above making the occasional fraudulent loan application, which is how he wound up in London’s Tyburn Prison in 1777 under sentence of death. An unusually eloquent plea for mercy, supposedly […]
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