A mega-dairy is transforming Arizona’s aquifer and farming lifestyles (Sucked Dry) — High Country News – Know the West (hcn.org) Continue reading A mega-dairy is transforming Arizona’s aquifer and farming lifestyles

COP26: A Bold Step Forward for the Water Resilience Agenda – Pacific Institute (pacinst.org) The 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow marked a welcome change in the way water is included in global climate dialogue. Now in the rearview mirror, it’s clear the water agenda received significantly more attention than during previous COPs, and that resilience and adaptation are gaining powerful traction alongside climate mitigation. Continue reading COP26: A Bold Step Forward for the Water Resilience Agenda

Far more potent than oil or gold, water is a stream of geopolitical force that runs deep, feeding crops and building nations Water is a stream of geopolitical force through history | Aeon Essays The virtual river starts anywhere water feeds agriculture. But from there, physical water vanishes, replaced by a flow of crops that carry only the memory of the water used to produce them. Crops then travel along the shipping lanes of the global trade system, eventually displacing the water that would have otherwise been used to grow them locally. Thus, water flows from source to destination ‘embedded’ … Continue reading The power of water

Sea level rise could bring flooding to inland California – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) Imagine the groundwater beneath your feet. As the ocean moves inland, it will push all this trapped water upward until it breaks the surface. Basements will heave, brackish water could corrode sewer pipes, toxic contaminants buried in the soil could bubble up and spread. Continue reading Increasing threat of coastal groundwater hazards from sea-level rise in California

https://orionmagazine.org/article/voices-from-the-aquifer/ ON DECEMBER 10, the Hawai‘i Department of Health found that a United States Navy water well contained gasoline and diesel hydrocarbons at levels up to 350 times what is considered safe for drinking water. Continue reading Orion Magazine – Voices from the Aquifer