New Design Challenge Empowers and Informs Responses to Global Water Crises
Initiative engages cross-disciplinary teams of next-generation…
What’s Up With Water – Microplastic Pollution in Rain
Somalia faces deepening drought.
Villagers in Pakistan’s…
HotSpots H2O: Islamic State’s Scorched-Earth Tactics Devastate Promising Harvests
Wheat and barley fields across Iraq and Syria are ablaze following attacks by Islamic State militants.
HotSpots H2O: Lowest Rainfall In Decades Pushes North Korea Toward Famine
The lack of rain is worsening North Korea’s chronic food shortages, and an estimated 10.1 million people, about 40 percent of the population, are facing severe food insecurity.
HotSpots H2O, May 13: Eleven Killed in Kenya Water Quarrel
A clash over water left eleven people dead and two injured in Marsabit County, Kenya, during the first week of May, 2019.
What’s Up With Water – Jakarta, Indonesia’s Sinking Capital
What’s Up with Water, your “need-to-know news” of the…
HotSpots H2O: Floods, Sanctions, and Shortages Deluge Iran
The Trump administration announced last week that it will…
Capital Flight? Indonesia Leader Suggests Moving Government Out of Sinking Jakarta
Unsustainable groundwater use is one factor that could prompt a political and urban restructuring in Indonesia.
New Zealand Waterways Fouled by Farm Runoff, Tourist Waste
Pesticides, trash, and heavy metals litter New Zealand’s waterways.
HotSpots H2O: California Water District Sues to Stop Colorado Drought Plan
The Imperial Irrigation District, an influential agency on the Colorado River, sued to halt a basinwide drought plan.
U.S. Irrigation Continues Steady Eastward Expansion
Irrigated farmland in the United States climbed to a record-high 58 million acres in 2017, according to new federal government data.