Summary:Â Rivers give value to the adjacent lands but respect neither our rules of ownership nor our national boundaries. The Rio Grande shows how this complicates relations between nations, as both America and Mexico depend on its waters, waters drying up and desperately needed. Water: The Other U.S. – Mexico Border Issue Stratfor, 13 May …
Stratfor looks at another U.S. – Mexico border issue: water Read More »
Summary:Â Zero Hedge gives today’s example of an ominous trend. The manufacturers of clickbait thrive while journalists are fired and the revenue of newspapers evaporates. They provide a dramatic mixture of fact and fiction, optimized for specific tribes of Americans. Worse, our diminished interest in telling fact from fancy creates audiences for fringe politicians (promoted …
Answer to “Why Has The Government Stopped Reporting Lake Mead Water Levels?” Read More »
Summary: A groundbreaking study shows that nearly a third of all underground water basins are stressed and how this year’s monsoons and El Niño are affecting these water supplies. It’s more evidence that we need better measurement and analysis of our world, and to take our exploitation of it off “exploit at will” mode. There …
A warning about water: we’re exhausting our groundwater reservoirs Read More »
Peak water might be a more serious problem — and perhaps happening sooner — than peak oil. NASA satellites provide more evidence of the danger.  But as the comment at the end notes, profitable but unsustainable agriculture is the underlying cause of the problem — and ending it will be the eventual result (but hardly …
Bad news for India, probably for China, perhaps for the US as well Read More »
Summary: the scarcity of potable water is a big story in the news. The actual problem does not resemble what we see in the stories. Rather, in much of the world water is under-priced, and underpriced goods are usually scarce. This is the first post in this series; the second considers the real scarcities — now …
