by Judith Curry
A round-up of recent articles from around the world about water — too little, too much, plus new technology and policy ideas.
Too little
Syrian water wars: Damascus still without water as battle for springs enters endgame [link]
SYRIA: Official says crucial #WaterSupply will soon be repaired through fragile ceasefire [link]
USA CALIFORNIA: Weeks of rain are rapidly reviving drought-ravaged lakes – [link]…
INDIA: Chennai #WaterCrisis: Chennai faces acute #WaterCrisis; 60% deficit in northeast monsoon [link]
WORST DROUGHT in 900 YEARS: Investing in water around the #Mena region [link]
MENA: Climate Change Further Threatens MENA Water Security [link]
SRI LANKA warned to expect worst #Drought disaster in four decades[link]
Climate change May Impact Hindu Kush-Himalaya Water Supply: Report [link]
It’s time to stop overspending our freshwater budget [link] …
Limits to global groundwater use [link]
NIGERIA: UN envoy @SRWatSan warns of #WaterCrisis in megacity Lagos; 1 in 10 have #WaterAccess [link]
INDIA: As #Ganga water level dips, farmers encroach land for farming destroying #Wetland habitat [link]
Africa’s biggest #hydropower plant may soon run out of water: [link]
MOZAMBIQUE: 16% of reservoir capacity and falling #WaterLevels threaten biggest #SubSaharan Hydro Plant – Bloomberg [link]
Somalis trek 60 km for water as drought and conflict bite [link]
AFGHANISTAN: #ClimateChange Fuels Insurgency; #Drought leaves 10% of land farmable [link]
CENTRAL ASIA: Water problems and future [link]
PALESTINE WEST BANK WATER CRISIS: Israel cut back on already inadequate water supply to Palestinians [link]
Silently, Quickly, and Completely: The World’s Lakes in Peril [link]
The villages at the heart of India’s interstate #WaterConflict [link]
Too much
HOUSTON: Nice long read from @HoustonChron on sort of a “where do we go from here?” with respect to flooding: [link]
UK: Major flooding in UK now likely every year, warns lead climate adviser [link]
TAMPA: New study shows big parts of Tampa will be underwater by 2040 (including its main hospital) [link]
NEW YORK CITY: #NYC braces for effects of #climatechange with new flood maps [link]
Allowances for evolving coastal flood risk under uncertain local sea-level rise (2016) [link]
This “dam inundation mapping tool” models effects of proposed dams on #Irrawaddy, #Salween, #Mekong, and Red River: [link]
Find out how #Ghana is turning the tide against flood risk through strengthened forecasting: [link]
Big NYT piece on #coastal #flooding [link]
Policies
World Bank: Protecting our water sources brings a wealth of benefits [link]
WATER BUSINESS STRATEGY: Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, MillerCoors Take On #WaterSecurity · [link]
CENTRAL ASIA: #Turkmenistan to head Int’l Fund for Saving Aral Sea [link] …
Ban Ki-moon gathers heads of state for political response to water scarcity [link]
#Water & #Climate Diplomacy – Integrative Approaches for Adaptive Action in Transboundary River Basins [link]
WATER MANAGEMENT INNOVATION: How the US western water wars may end [link]
URBAN WATER INFRASTRUCTURE: Comparing #WaterUtility finances & economic concerns across US cities [link]
Report: Deadly Miscues on the Brahmaputra an Argument for More Transboundary Cooperation http://j.mp/2dtxbbq
WATER POLITICS MATTERS: #WaterShortages bring death, social injustice, political instability & economic stagnation [link]
BANGLADESH: water resources management issues [link]
INDIA: Water as a weapon. Severe #WaterShortages & allocation conflicts threaten federalism & future socio-economic development http://www.policyforum.net/water-as-a-weapon/ … #SDG6
Long term plan for the Colorado River and Lake Mead [link]
SOUTHEAST ASIA: #Mekong River initiative will highlight values of #Biodiversity, #Ecosystems [link]
SOUTH ASIA: #India Govt hails @WorldBank decision on #IndusWaterTreaty [link]
Collective Management of Water Resources in Coastal Bangladesh: Formal and Substantive Approaches [link]
PAKISTAN: Big dams needed to address #WaterScarcity issue: [link]
How infrastructure helps determine risk of violence after drought [link]
UGANDA: Building #Drought Resilience Through Land and #WaterManagement [link]
Droughts don’t have to spell disaster. El Niño countries, take note [link]
MEKONG BLOCKAGE: Vietnam sweats bullets as China and Laos dam the #Mekong [link]
TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION: #Pakistan officials call for water agreement with #Afghanistan [link]
THIRD POLE FULCRUM: ‘With thousands of dams upstream #China has water as weapon against #India’ [link]
CHINA: Crisis #WaterManagement in #China: Key to Political Control? [link]
Technologies (successes, promises and failures)
ISRAEL: How did a country that’s 60% desert achieve water independence? [link]
In #Nepal a #climateaction project revives a village where many had migrated out of in search of #cleanwater: [link]
SOURCE WATER PROTECTION: Improving #WaterSecurity Through Nature-Based Solutions [link]
Can dams replace glaciers? [link]
INDIA: @WorldBank Loan to India Leads to Water-Damaging Projects and abusive #HumanRights practice [link]
IRAQ #MosulDam – Bigger Problem Than ISIS? 1.5M at risk of dam failure: grouting an engineering disaster [link]
Statement on Mosul Dam Emergency Preparedness | Baghdad, Iraq – Embassy of the United States [link] …
RIVER RESTORATION | Tearing down America’s dams — and what comes in their wake: [link]
LOCAL SOLUTIONS: In a City of Big Water Projects, Is Chicago’s Little #GreenInfrastructure Working? [link]
How to make hydropower more environmentally friendly [link]
WATER DISRUPTION – ROUTINE MAINTENANCE: Water Woes in #Malaysia’s Klang Valley – 4 million without water [link]…
Danger of #Kariba Dam collapse, which would be catastrophic for Africa: [link]
China shelves #hydro #dam scheme at head of Nu-Thanlwin-#Salween #River [link]
WATER MONITORING: The Internet of Taps? [link]
Rain gardens to the rescue: How Detroiters are working together to protect water infrastructure. [link]
Mekong Delta to have five water plants to cope with drought [link]
Regional powers back studies on impact of Ethiopia’s Nile dam. [link]
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