Divining Destiny: Water Challenges in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley
Demand for Mexico’s finite supply of water will rise steadily for the foreseeable future.
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Q&A: Raúl Garciadiego Helps Restore Access to Water in the Tehuacán Valley
The people who inhabit Tehuacán Valley in southeast Mexico humanize one of the greatest global crises.
Perspective: Waters, Wars, Wheat, Watts, Waste and Wasta Add Up to Syria’s Liquid Worries
Syria’s economics, history, politics, diplomacy, and culture have often been defined in a large part by water. This has been the case since this area was part of the Eblan civilization, or about 2500 BC, onward. But let’s look at some more recent facts and events.
Perspective: Water, Energy, Economy, Poverty, and Haiti
The average Haitian has been living the life of a disaster victim even before the earthquake. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its human development and other indices were about what one would find in some of the poorest sub-Saharan countries. Mismanagement, corruption and just plain venality have forever been human-caused security earthquakes in this sad country.
Perspective: Sudan – Land of Water and Thirst; War and Peace
Circle of Blue introduces the first contributing column from Dr. Paul J. Sullivan, an expert on resource conflict in the Middle East and parts of Africa. In his first piece, Sullivan discusses the water crisis in one of the world’s most spotlighted failing states — Sudan.
Arab World Among the Most Vulnerable to Climate Change
Though water is already scarce and food production will decline in the region, most Arab countries are doing little to prepare, reports say.
Food production in the Arab world will be hurt by sea level rises and water scarcity exacerbated by climate change, concluded two reports released last week, according to Reuters.
Heart of Dryness: Water, Climate, and Energy
The second installment Climate Change Coping Strategies of excerpts from James G. Workman’s Heart of Dryness
War on Water: A Clash Over Oil, Power and Poverty in the Niger Delta
Thousands Search for Fresh Water, Food in a Monumentally Contaminated War Zone
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California Report: In Dry Times, Deep Reservoir of Water Solutions
New report highlights possible solutions to state’s water shortages.
Kenya to Fence out Farmers From National Parks
Kenya is planning to put electric fences around its major national parks and to increase the number of armed guards to protect water resources from farmers
Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been plumbing natural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hundred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in fluids to force the gas out. Somehow, stray gas worked into […]
