“ Seven states have agreed to cut water use to boost the Colorado River's depleted reservoirs, reaching a consensus after months of negotiations.”
Via PIRatE Lab
Beijing is turning its sights to one of the wildest and riskiest reaches of the Tibetan Plateau where it's making plans to build the world's most powerful hydropower plant.
World Water Day 2021 highlights how H2O impacts our everyday lives, social and economic stability and climate change – and what we can all do to value it.
When humans over-exploit underground water supplies, the ground collapses like a huge empty water bottle. It's called subsidence, and it could affect 1.6 billion people by 2040.
The 2017 to 2019 period was the hottest and driest three-year stretch ever recorded for the Murray-Darling Basin, bringing with it a level of water stress that many in the region had never before experienced.
Partner Content: Australia is a country on the brink of a water crisis. Understanding why water is scarce and where the water goes will be crucial to keeping Australia’s taps flowing as its population grows.
Singapore uses 141 litres of water per person every day and is the fifth most likely country in the world to face extremely high water stress by 2040 - but tech innovations are helping to cut water consumption.
Unprecedented levels of dam building and water extraction by nations on great rivers are leaving countries further downstream increasingly thirsty, increasing the risk of conflicts.
Desde el inicio con el paso de los primeros cazadores-recolectores hasta las sociedades tecnológicas, la humanidad ha competido por los recursos, la guerra es el medio más común y el agua es probablemente el bien más preciado para la vida.
Elena BruessElena Bruess writes on the intersection of environment, health, and human rights for Circle of Blue and covers international conflict and water for Circle of Blue’s HotSpots H2O.
Conserving forests, wetlands and watersheds, including those around cities, can help absorb rainfall, helping stem crop losses from flooding and drought.
More than a dozen large NSW towns have a "high risk" of running out of water and the quality of supplies in some areas in deteriorating as the state's big dry intensifies.
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