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The Global Rundown Extensive flooding in southern China has destroyed thousands of homes and forced officials to cut production at two of the country’s largest hydropower plants. A spill of wastewater from a phosphate factory has contaminated a riverbed in Israel’s desert. More than a year after the Samarco mine disaster in Brazil, indigenous communities […]
The Global Rundown A report by the United Nations urges the international community to address unsafe water in Yemen, which is fueling a deadly cholera outbreak. Hydropower along the Teesta river may be exacerbating dry-season water shortages, complicating negotiations between India and Bangladesh. Protests over access to grazing land and fresh water led to the […]
The Global Rundown Japan’s government is encouraging cities to privatize their water systems to address the growing cost of replacing old water and sewage pipes. Officials in Pakistan say construction could soon begin on a massive hydropower dam in the Indus River Basin. A report alleges several large clothing brands source materials from factories that […]
The Global Rundown Water concerns are at the center of a debate over the expansion of coal seam gas fields in New South Wales. A teachers’ pension fund in Canada could use its investments to influence private water companies in Chile. Phosphorus pollution declined significantly in China’s lakes over the past decade, but still has […]
The Global Rundown Nationalizing Britain’s water and sewage services could save households more than $100 each year, according to the Labour Party. Drug trafficking is driving deforestation in Central America, researchers found, threatening ecosystem services. The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Yemen continues to climb. Chinese banana plantations in Laos have given rural […]
The Global Rundown A new investment deal between China and Pakistan will direct billions of dollars to hydropower projects in the Indus River Basin. Turkey began moving a 500-year-old tomb away from the Tigris River in an effort to make way for the Ilisu dam. Yemen declared a state of emergency in response to a […]
The Global Rundown More than 2 million people in Puerto Rico are served by contaminated drinking water systems, according to a new report. Protests over poor water, electricity, and housing services are spreading in South Africa. A small oil spill occurred at a pumping station for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in South Dakota, reigniting […]
The Global Rundown Millions of people are at risk from water contaminated with high levels of arsenic in India’s Bihar state. Depleted reservoirs have created water shortages in Hyderabad, India. Europe’s dependence on soybean imports from water-scarce areas of the world could increase food prices, a study found. The rapid pace of hydropower development in […]
The Global Rundown Lawmakers in Hong Kong question whether the city should renegotiate its water supply deal with China. Inadequate water flows in the Teesta River are complicating a water sharing agreement between Bangladesh and India. Talks between India and Pakistan over disputed hydropower projects in the Indus Basin have stalled again. A drought in […]
The Global Rundown Residents of Colombia’s Tolima region voted to ban mining, in part due to concerns over groundwater. In Malaysia, the government decided to extend a ban on bauxite mining to address water pollution. As a famine looms in Somalia and three other countries in Africa and the Middle East, water scarcity is a […]
