Desalination Plants: Can they Save California Cities?
In Coalinga, a city in the center of California in the Central Valley, water is as precious as gold: rare, ...
Tag: Drought
Netherlands Now Facing Drought After Centuries of Fighting Too Much Water
Two-thirds of the Netherlands’ population, including its capital city of Amsterdam and several other major population centres, lie below sea ...
The End of a Way of Life? Ranchers Struggle to Survive the American South-West’s Megadrought
This story on the effects of drought in the American south-west on farmers was originally published by the Guardian, and is republished ...
Europe’s Worst Drought in at Least 500 Years Continues
Droughts affect nearly 55 million people globally every year. This year, they have affected the whole of Europe. Since early ...
Horn of Africa: Worst Drought in 40 Years Continues, 22 Million People Now Face Starvation
Four consecutive years of insufficient and unprecedentedly low rainfall have brought on the worst drought the Horn of Africa has ...
Water Crisis in the (American) West Continues: More Water Cuts Announced as Largest US Reservoirs Hit Record Lows
As the historic 23-year megadrought in the American West, the worst in the region in over 1,200 years, continues to ...
Water Crisis in Italy: Five Regions Declare State of Emergency
Italy has declared a state of emergency in five northern regions battling the worst drought in 70 years, the government ...
World Facing Unprecedented Hunger Crisis: “Famine Around the Corner” in Horn of Africa
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the world’s fifth largest wheat exporter, attacks against the country’s Black ...
Girlhood Annihilated: Rates of Child Marriage Are Soaring in Ethiopia
Catherine Russel, UNICEF’s executive director, warns that local authorities have registered “dramatic” increases in child marriage across the drought-afflicted areas ...
Worst Drought in Forty Years Pushes East Africa to the Brink of Famine
Inhabitants of the Horn of Africa are currently preparing to face the most severe drought in the region since 1981. ...
Climate Change Victim: Chile Faces Its Worst Drought in History
On Monday, Chile announced possible plans to ration water in the capital of Santiago amidst a raging drought that is ...
World Water Day 2022: Problems and Solutions in Water Management
There are eight years left until the Sustainable Development Goals’ objectives are due, and it’s still a long distance to ...
