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ATLANTA – Many residents of the Southeast who sacrificed greener lawns and longer showers to reduce water usage during the region’s historic drought are now seeing the other shoe drop: They’re being hit with sharp rate increases as water utilities scramble to make up revenue lost because of conservation measures. Read More here. Source : […]
ATLANTA, GEORGIA — There’s a sense across metro Atlanta that the extreme drought that transfixed the region last fall and winter has eased and that things are finally getting back to normal. That is a dangerous, dangerous assumption. Even though the most severe drought symptoms have eased, most of north Georgia is still experiencing a […]
ISRAEL — Israel stands to lose large amounts of drinking water due to poor quality and problems associated with drought years, according to the national Water Authority. Among the threats to water quality are cowsheds in the south that have been found to cause groundwater pollution, and sewage that could soon pollute drilled wells in […]
MADRID – Spain is reeling from its most severe drought in 70 years with the nation’s reservoirs on average just half full, the Environment Ministry reports. Rainfall has been less than half of what’s considered normal for the last six months and reservoir levels were already low after two years in which normal rain levels […]
MADRID – Spain is reeling from its most severe drought in 70 years with the nation’s reservoirs on average just half full, the Environment Ministry reports. Rainfall has been less than half of what’s considered normal for the last six months and reservoir levels were already low after two years in which normal rain levels […]
WASHINGTON D.C. – The Army Corps of Engineers is proposing a new Southeast water-sharing plan to expand storage in upstream lakes and lower river flows into Apalachicola Bay, Fla. The corps acknowledged that the action was likely to harm threatened species. Read More here. Source : The New York TimesReported by: Vanity Fair Circle of Blue named one of 24 “worthy sites.”
CHIANG MAI – As the Bhumibol dam plans to release more water to meet the needs of Songkran revellers, farmers in Chiang Mai’s Doi Saket district are fighting over water to feed their drought-hit paddy fields. Tanarat Poommakasikorn, deputy director of the dam in Tak, said yesterday an extra five million cubic metres of water […]
Left-leaning think tank says U.S. droughts may mean Canada will allow bulk water exports to its neighbor.
ATLANTA — As a record drought persists in the Southeast, residents have realized they can no longer properly care for their animals. Horses, in particular, are being turned in to a rescue operation in north Georgia. Read More here. Source : National Public Radio
About 250,000 people in north China’s Hebei Province, which neighbors Beijing, face drinking water shortages as a severe winter drought lingers, government authorities said on Monday. Read more here.
By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue Senior Editor (posted from Modeshift.org) The era of global climate change has produced such rainy and warm conditions in northern Michigan that a winter’s worth of snow and ice melted completely here over the last two days. Meanwhile it’s dry, desperately so, in several huge and significant regions of […]
At the opening reception last week for Water Stories at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, we talked about iconic images that define and punctuate eras. Matthew Brady’s plates of the Civil War that captured the still, anonymity of death. Eddie Adams and Nick Ut’s black and white photographs from Vietnam that etched war’s […]
