by Judith Curry
Too little, too much, dammed and dirty.
Too little
SOUTH ASIA WATER STRESS: Water Wrangles: As Karnataka & Tamil Nadu slug it out, #Pakistan wages #WaterWar on #India [link]
CANADA NOVA SCOTIA: Wendy Elliott reflections on #Drought: Water, water, but not everywhere [link]
USA OREGON DISASTER MANAGEMENT: How To Prepare Water For The Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake [link]
Find out about water conservation issues facing young #farmers in the U.S. west, [link]
Interview with @jfleck about the more optimistic side of water in the west. [link]
Too much
China’s devastating floods can be traced back to corruption and overbuilding [link]
Welcome to Carlisle, the British City With a Climate Change Bull’s-Eye [link]
My Drowning City Is a Harbinger of Climate Slums to Come [link]
UK’s National Flood Resilience Review published [link]
Climate change confusion over UK government’s flooding review [link]
USA CLIMATE POLICY: US strategy for flood resilience is underwater [link]
India and Nepal need more information about melting Tibetan glaciers from China to plan for flash floods [link]
EXTREME FLOODING: #FloodControl lessons from #Louisiana deluge [link] …
Satellite data is saving lives with flood forecasting in #Bangladesh [link]
India Ganges #Floods Break All Previous Records [link]
Thousands of US homes keep flooding over and over, yet we keep rebuilding them the same way [link]
Dammed
Mega project to take 4 billion m3 of water from Mekong River [link]
Rivers, canals gradually dying in Mekong River Delta [link]
China couldn’t get the Myitsone dam in Myanmar built. Chinese leaders can’t seem to let it go. [link] …
Life of the Salween highlights Southeast Asia’s dam concerns [link]
Utah wants to spend $1.5 billion on dams even the industry says are unnecessary. Why? [link]
Victory in Chile! Dams scrapped on five wild rivers: [link]
Dirty
USA MISSOURI: Move to remake state water commission draws ire & concern; open season for #BigAG [link]
USA MASSACHUSETTS: Beer Test: Making beer with Boston #CharlesRiver water [link]
NIGERIA: That unregulated #BottledWater may quench thirst or kill [link] … “Huge population, no potable water”
USA FLORIDA: Fertilzer plant sinkhole dumps 215M gals of reprocessed water into #FloridanAquifer [link]
WATER MICROBIOLOGY: For First Time Ever, Superbugs Found In #DrinkingWater ” [link]
Why is the “humble loo” the world’s greatest innovation? [link]
Widespread groundwater contamination in the Indo-Gangetic Basin [link]
Ethiopia’s Nile River dam is the world’s mos important hydro project right now, but no one talks about it [link]
WATER INNOVATION: Six innovations to quench the global thirst for clean water #WWWeek [link]
Sea level rise
#ClimateChange & US Housing: Will Rising Tides Sink Homes? 2M homes (2%) worth $882B at risk by 2100 [link]
USA FLORIDA: Editorial: No denying #ClimateChange impact in Florida [link]
You’d believe in global warming, too, if Turnbull gave you $300 million. UPDATED: Growing, not sinking [link]
Yikes. When NYC sinks – @riceid’s unsettling dystopian view of our future. [link]
Even a ‘Great Wall of Manhattan’ can’t save #NYC from impact of climate change. [link]Filed under: Week in review