The year in water 2017
A new era of severe environmental and economic disruption around the world upends freshwater supplies.
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The Stream, December 11: Cape Town Water Supply Will Likely Be Depleted by May
The Global Rundown China’s massive South-to-North Water Diversion project fails to supply water to drought-stricken rural farmers. Researchers offer a solution for increasing hydropower along the Mekong River without sacrificing downstream fisheries. Tree-ring data reveals that Arizona’s recent dry spell was the worst in nearly 700 years. A billion dollar clean-up of the Hudson River […]
U.S. Government Releases First Global Water Strategy
Report identifies water priorities in foreign policy. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue To coordinate its response to floods, droughts, disease, and other water challenges whose political and economic consequences leap borders the Trump administration submitted the federal government’s first global water strategy. Ordered by Congress in 2014, the strategy lays out four goals: increase […]
Vietnam’s Tourism and Fishing Industries Drown in Waste
Plastic pollution, largely from Asia, chokes the world’s oceans. Jennifer Möller-Gulland, Circle of Blue MUI NE, Vietnam — An afternoon swim in the South China Sea along the southeast coast of Vietnam is not the pleasant experience a visitor might expect. Amid rainbow-colored fishing boats, plastics, of all sizes and forms, bob in emerald waters. […]
The Stream, March 17: Europe Coastlines May Experience Extreme Floods Every Year By 2100
The Global Rundown A new study anticipates extreme coastal flooding events will occur in Europe every year by the end of the century. Researchers in China warn the headwaters of the Lancang River are at risk from receding glaciers. Syria’s government is asking the United Nations and U.S. coalition forces to quell air strikes near […]
Water and Climate Dominate World Economic Forum Risk Report
Water crises and climate change worry business and political elite.
2016 in Water: Rising Costs, Powerful Civic Opposition, New Investment Pressure, and Stranded Assets
2016 in Water: This year Circle of Blue found that water stresses activated big confrontations over policy, resource supply, and economic stability around the nation and the world.
The Stream, November 14: Michigan Declares Western Lake Erie ‘Impaired’ Water
The Global Rundown Persistent algal blooms led Michigan officials to list Lake Erie as a polluted waterway. An El Nino-fueled drought hammered Vietnam, resulting in record saltwater intrusion in the Mekong delta. After a large earthquake near an oil-storage hub, Oklahoma regulators shut down dozens of wastewater injection wells. Researchers, meanwhile, map the best sites […]
Salween River Dams Intrude on Contested Land | PODCAST |
The great rivers of Southeast Asia — the Mekong, Irrawaddy, Salween, and others — are targets for dozens of major dams that will transform the region’s politics and ecology. The contest over the Mekong River is perhaps the most well-known, but conflict in the Salween basin is no less active. Fighting between the central government […]
The Stream, November 2: Long Recovery Ahead For South Africa Reservoirs
The Global Rundown It could take half a decade for water levels to return to normal in South Africa’s drought-hit reservoirs. Floods in Egypt turned the Nile River brown and forced the closure of several water treatment facilities. Saltwater intrusion threatens to turn coastal wetlands in the southeastern United States into “ghost forests”. Ancient cisterns […]
