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The Global Rundown Peru is opening a large irrigation project to boost agricultural exports. Australia is spending millions on water projects in New South Wales, while Guatemala is spending millions to repay families affected by the Chixoy Dam. A transport route between the Baltic and Black Seas is being revived. Farmers in Bangladesh are growing […]
The Global Rundown Water withdrawals in the United States are leveling off even as the economy continues to grow. Businesses say water risks are growing. California voters are spending more money to combat drought, as will the hydraulic fracturing industry in the United States. Thailand faces water shortages, late rains are exacerbating food insecurity in […]
Groundwater reserves are falling, but little is known about how much water is left.
World-changing reporting fresh from northern Michigan. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue Circle of Blue’s Choke Point: China project showed how China’s massive energy-consuming urban construction program, like this development in Xian, is producing an urgent a confrontation over water in the dry north, where much of China’s energy is produced. Click image […]
The potential for violence, conflict, and government upheaval arising from natural resource scarcity and a warming planet continues to catch the eye of America’s top spooks. “Competition for scarce resources, such as food, water, or energy, will likely increase tensions within and between states and could lead to more localized or regional conflicts, or exacerbate […]
Coverage of “the world’s quest for water” is timely, intimate, and dramatic.
Along the 1,800-mile river basin,locals wrestle with water demands.
California Drought As much as 1,150 megawatts of energy production could shut down if water supplies for power plants in drought-hit California are not secured, according to the state’s grid operator, Bloomberg News reported. Several of the state’s energy agencies have warned that the drought could threaten grid reliability, though current restrictions on water use […]
Middle East More than 120 people were killed and at least 40,000 were affected by flash floods in six provinces across Afghanistan this past week, AlertNet reported. The floods were caused by heavy rainfall in the region, which is vulnerable to seasonal floods. Environmental issues have been largely absent from political agendas in Pakistan, despite […]
A treacherous mountain range unleashes a torrent of water, mud, and boulders that was long anticipated and willfully ignored.
QlikView Dashboard Visualizes and Compares California Water Reserves as Part of Choke Point: Index Coverage of Global Water Crises Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in user-driven business intelligence (BI), and Circle of Blue, a team of award-winning journalists and researchers reporting on water and worldwide resource issues, announced that a new data dashboard (https://www.circleofblue.org/CPX/) powered by QlikView is […]
Circle of Blue’s partnership with Qlikview featured by the White House in their big data initiative. “Climate change is a fact. And when our children’s children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world, with new sources of energy, I want us […]
