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The Stream, May 15: Pakistan Hydropower Gets $50 Billion Boost From China
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 Stream, May 10: India Expects Record Grain Production On Normal Monsoon
The Global Rundown A second year of normal monsoon rains could help boost grain production to record levels in India. The Philippines’ new environment minister insists the country can balance mining and environmental protection. A new study documents the many climate change laws enacted around the world. Farmers in the United Kingdom worry that unusually […]
The Stream, April 21: Hawaiian River To Be Guaranteed Flowing Water
The Global Rundown An agreement to restore Hawaii’s Waimea River will result in continuously flowing water for the first time in more than a century. An Indian tribe in Arizona has to convince the U.S. government to join its lawsuit to restrict groundwater pumping above the Grand Canyon. Stanford researchers built an online map to […]
The Stream, April 19: In Drought, Indian State Bans New Wells in Tech Hub
The Global Rundown Because of declining groundwater levels, no new wells for six months in India’s tech hub of Hyderabad, say state authorities. Concerned about water shortages, South Africa’s electric power utility will install a small groundwater desalination plant at a nuclear power station near Cape Town while city officials consider their own desalination facility […]
The Stream, January 23: G20 Countries Commit To Protect Water For Agriculture
The Global Rundown Representatives of the Group of Twenty countries in Berlin announced they will pursue agricultural practices that better protect water supplies and ecosystems. Residents of Ecuador will not get compensation for water pollution from Chevron’s subsidiary in Canada after a court decision blocked enforcement of an earlier ruling. A major reservoir project in […]
The Stream, July 14: International Efforts Continue to Address Drought and Disease
The Global Rundown Laos recently signed a new agreement with the World Bank which should help bring water to more of its remote, mountain-dwelling citizens. Namibia is losing important construction jobs over its ongoing drought. Half of all U.S. states have some degree of corrosive groundwater. An unlikely Nebraska-Dubai joint effort may mean new drought solutions for the Middle […]
The Stream, July 13: More Floods and Droughts Means More International Aid
The Global Rundown Flooding and droughts are causing China and several African nations, including South Africa and Kenya, to look beyond their borders for assistance and solutions. Growing better grass could make for more drought resistant crops. Meanwhile, US citizens are growing increasingly concerned with the current climate change discourse (or lack thereof). The UK […]
The Stream, June 28: Large Groundwater Reserves Discovered In California
The Global Rundown A study of deep groundwater sources in California found triple the amount previously estimated under prime agricultural regions. Water shortages in Palestine are the result of a heat wave, not intentional cuts, according to Israel’s Water Authority. The Panama Canal opened its newest set of locks over the weekend, allowing bigger ships […]
Water Scarcity, Public Protest Slow Foreign Farmland Purchases
New GRAIN study finds changed conditions in international “land grabs.”
Venezuela Drought Aggravates Instability
Shortages of power, food, supplies wrack country. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue Though June is generally the start of the rainy season in Venezuela, much of the country remains drier than normal, a moisture deficit that affects the country’s capacity to generate electricity and is aggravating a severe economic recession that is prompting looting, […]
