Nearly 30,000 households in #BritishColumbia were ordered to #evacuate following the emergence of roughly 400 #wildfires across the province. It is currently #Canada’s worst #wildfire season on record, with at least 1,000 fires burning across the country.

https://www.isciences.com/blog/2023/08/24/canada-intense-deficits-persist-in-most-provinces

#flood #drought #climate #environment #watermaps #sustainability #WaterScarcity #EnvironmentalScience #freshwater #FoodScarcity #WaterSecurity #EnergySecurity #FoodSecurity #WaterNews #WSIM #Geospatial #maps

As #Taiwan faces major #drought, its government has implemented limits on residential #water use, with some areas being cut off for two days a week. This #drought has depleted #reservoirs and limited production in semiconductor factories. Read more: https://www.isciences.com/blog/2023/04/27/east-asia-intense-deficits-in-se-northern-china-bd9tx

#flood #drought #climate #environment #watermaps #sustainability #WaterScarcity #EnvironmentalScience #semiconductors #EastAsia #freshwater #dams #FoodScarcity #WaterSecurity #EnergySecurity #FoodSecurity #WaterNews

The ISciences Global Water Watch List for April 2023 has been published. Deficits are forecast in central #SouthAmerica and the #SouthernCone, #Canada, #Africa, and the #MiddleEast. Surplus is expected in the southwestern #UnitedStates, eastern #SouthAsia, and central #Russia.

https://www.isciences.com/blog/2023/04/15/isciences-worldwide-water-watch-list-april-2023

#flood #drought #climate #environment #watermaps #sustainability #WaterScarcity #EnvironmentalScience #MiddleEast #freshwater #FoodScarcity #WaterSecurity #EnergySecurity #FoodSecurity #WaterNews

What could go wrong?

'UN to start taking deep-sea mining applications this July'
#Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/un-start-taking-deep-sea-mining-applications-this-july-2023-03-31/

#OceanHealth #WaterNews #WaterJustice

#WaterCycle

As #water changes, our world changes.

'Seven killed, many trapped in avalanche in India’s Sikkim state'

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/4/six-killed-in-avalanche-in-northeast-indias-sikkim-state-report

#WaterNews
#India
#GlobalMelting

‘Oregon Faces Dire Water Future, State Audit Finds’
#WaterNews #WaterJustice #TracyLoew #SalemStatesmanJournal

“‘#WaterIsLife. And the findings in this advisory report are shocking,’ [Oregon] Secretary of State #ShemiaFagan said in a news release. ‘Not only are many families in Oregon dealing with water insecurity today, many more are at high risk of becoming water insecure in the very near future.’

“Communities across Oregon are already unable to reliably access adequate, safe and clean water, the report finds. …

“The recommendations are [in part]:

“Sustain legislative commitment and develop shared priorities to guide Oregon in making holistic and inclusive water decisions promoting water security. …

“Take steps to balance interests and address high-priority water security needs by increasing public engagement in state and regional water management decisions. …

“Explore opportunities to prioritize water security and equity more clearly in state policy, such as enshrining the human right to water in law and other policy changes that could expand protections for community and ecosystem health. …

“Integrate federally recognized tribes as full and equal partners and co-managers in water decision-making.”

https://news.yahoo.com/oregon-faces-dire-water-future-232449093.html

‘How Sensor-Dangling Helicopters Can Help Beat the #WaterCrisis’
#WaterNews #WaterJustice #ClimateChange #Wired #MattSimon

“After weeks of near-constant #rain and #flooding, #California is finally drying out—but hopefully not getting too dry, because the state needs all the rain it can get to pull itself out of a historic #drought. ...

“A simultaneous solution to both extremes is right beneath Californians’ feet: #aquifers. …

“California’s #CentralValley is loaded with such aquifers, capable of storing some 46 trillion gallons of water, three times as much as all the state’s reservoirs. But this part of the state has long over-exploited them. …

“That’s led to a dramatic imbalance, says hydrogeologist #GrahamFogg of UC Davis, who studies California’s aquifers. ‘Civilizations all across the world have been really expert at sucking groundwater virtually uncontrollably, but we've been terrible at putting water back in the ground,’ he says. ‘It's kind of like mismanagement of a bank account, where you get really good at withdrawing funds but you ignore deposits for decades and decades.’ ...

“But Fogg and his colleagues have a plan to balance the state’s water budget: using giant sensors dangling from helicopters and towed behind ATVs to strategically target certain areas for aquifer recharging. They just need to find the spots with the right geology.”

https://www.wired.com/story/how-sensor-dangling-helicopters-can-help-beat-the-water-crisis/

‘Why Desalination Won't Save States Dependent on Colorado River Water’
#WaterNews #CNBC #EmmaNewburger

“#Desalination (or desalinization) is a complicated process that involves filtering out salt and bacteria content from #ocean water to produce safe #DrinkingWater to the tap. While there are more than a dozen desalination plants in the U.S., mostly in #California, existing plants don't have the capacity to replace the amount of water the #ColoradoRiver is losing.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/other/why-desalination-won-t-save-states-dependent-on-colorado-river-water/ar-AA16OOUk

#WaterCrisis

‘How Native Americans Will Shape the Future of Water in the West’
~~Tribal nations hold the rights to significant portions of the Colorado River. In the increasing drought, some are showing the way to sustainability.~~
#WaterNews #WaterJustice #NewYorker #RachelMonroe

“In the United States, water law is founded on the principle of ‘first in time, first in right’—whoever first put water to ‘beneficial use’ can claim the right to use it now and in the future. In the 1922 compact, though, tribal nations are mentioned only in passing. ‘The Colorado River Compact basically just assumed that tribes were going to go away, the United States was going to figure it out, nobody had to care,’ Jay Weiner, a tribal attorney from Montana, told me. Instead, in recent years, as the worst drought in more than a thousand years has seized the Southwest, the region’s tribal nations have been asserting their legal rights to the contentious, increasingly scarce commodity of water.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/how-native-americans-will-shape-the-future-of-water-in-the-west

‘In California's Imperial Valley, Farmers Brace for a Future with Less Colorado River Water’
#WaterNews #WaterJustice #LATimes #IanJames

“Since its founding in 1911, the #ImperialIrrigationDistrict has held some of the most senior #WaterRights on the #ColoradoRiver, and it is among the last in line to take cuts. Its water rights, which date to 1901, support the local farm economy and sustain a substantial portion of the nation's food supply.

“But as the Colorado's largest reservoir declines closer to ‘dead pool’ levels, politicians and water managers in other states are calling on the IID to make cuts beyond 9% that the agency has pledged to make starting this year. They say that the dire state of Lake Mead warrants larger cuts, and that much of the reductions will need to come from agriculture. …

“The demands have struck an anxious chord among Imperial Valley growers, who say their way of life could be threatened and the country's food security is at stake.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/in-californias-imperial-valley-farmers-brace-for-a-future-with-less-colorado-river-water/ar-AA16NxSl

Looking for a great news source about climate/water?

I’ve been relying on #ClimateNexus (https://climatenexus.org/) for up-to-the-minute and intersectional #WaterNews for a while now.

Their newsletter is terrific. Example: https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/20220127-traffic-actually-could-be-breaking-your-brain-copper-bnef

Come to find out that they are also responsible for #WaterHub (https://waterhub.org/), which has just launched #ColorOfWater (https://colorofwater.waterhub.org/), an initiative created to build voice and visibility for people of color in the #WaterMovement.

Sign up for all their stuff! And support this great effort with whatever megaphone you have.

Arizona’s #water finance board recently voted to advance plans to construct a $5 billion #desalination plant, which would pump water from #Mexico's #SeaofCortez. Environmental groups have raised concerns about environmental damages of the plant. Read more: https://www.isciences.com/blog/2023/01/30/mexico-central-america-caribbean-surpluses-in-c-amer-to-persist

#flood #drought #climate #environment #WaterResources #FreshWater #sustainability #WaterSecurity #EnergySecurity #FoodSecurity #CorporateSustainability #PublicHealth #waterlevel #EnvironmentalScience #WaterNews

12-month #water anomalies forecast October 2022 - September 2023 for the #UnitedStates.

Deficits: Southwestern #Oregon, Central #Idaho, Western-central #Washington, southern #California, North-central #Iowa.

Surplus: Western #NewMexico, Western-central #Utah, northern and eastern #Nevada.

#flood #drought #climate #environment #FreshWater #sustainability #ClimateExtremes #WaterSecurity #FoodSecurity #CorporateSustainability #PublicHealth #Geospatial #WaterNews

https://www.isciences.com/blog/2023/01/21/united-states-major-water-deficits-in-pnw-to-persist

Three powerful updates on #ClimateJustice in the November 14 #TimeMagazine.

“The Selfish Case for Climate Justice” in the magazine (titled differently online)
https://time.com/6225469/climate-justice-inequity-self-interest/

Explainer about the terms “loss” and “damage” in climate justice.
https://time.com/6225496/what-is-loss-and-damage-climate-change/

“A River’s Day in Court” (in the magazine)
An #Indigenous community in #Ecuador fights to save its river from #GreenTransition fallout.
https://time.com/6224546/fight-to-save-ecuador-piatua-river/

#WaterFacts #WaterNews

#WaterNews

A New Satellite Will Study How Climate Change Is Altering Nearly All of Earth's Water: #TimeMagazine

"Jointly built by NASA and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite will monitor the entire Earth’s surface between 78 degrees north latitude and 78 degrees south latitude—from the Arctic Circle to the Antarctic Circle—once every three weeks, sending back about one terabyte of data per day."

https://time.com/6241780/us-france-satellite-monitor-climate-change-water/

This has got to be one of the worst ideas to land on, even remotely.

"Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet Is a Desperate Idea, Yet We’re Inching Toward It" #BillMcKibben #NewYorker

"This scheme, not surprisingly, has few public advocates, and even among those who want to see it studied the inference has been that it would not actually be implemented for decades."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/dimming-the-sun-to-cool-the-planet-is-a-desperate-idea-yet-were-inching-toward-it

IMHO: We MUST stop messing with systems that are bigger than we are and instead learn to live in harmony with them.

#WaterNews #Climate #CarbonEmissions

ISciences Worldwide Water Watch List issued 2022. #Water anomalies forecast September 2022 - August 2023. Deficits: North #Africa, #Venezuela, #Canada, and #China. Surplus: #Pakistan, #Thailand, #Cambodia, southeastern #Australia, and eastern #Russia.

#flood #drought #climate #environment #WaterResources #WaterNews #sustainability #ClimateExtremes #WaterSecurity #EnergySecurity #FoodSecurity #CorporateSustainability #PublicHealth #EarlyWarning #WSIM #Geospatial

https://www.isciences.com/blog/2022/12/16/isciences-worldwide-water-watch-list-december-2022

#WaterFacts #WaterNews #WaterThoughts

Fascinating article about #TidalPower from #TimeMagazine in July.

“A rising tide lifts all the grids”
https://time.com/6189832/ocean-tide-energy/

“The idea is simple. First, tides. They rise and fall predictably, relentlessly driven by the gravitational pull of the moon. Those traits combined make the tide an attractive proposition for powering the grid. ‘The sun doesn’t always shine; the wind doesn’t always blow,’ notes Simon Forrest, the CEO of Scotland-based tidal-power producer Nova Innovation. But with tidal, he says, ‘we can tell you how much we will be generating two minutes past 3 in the morning a month from now, five years from now.’”

#imageAltText: Waves crash against the cliffs of the Orkney Islands, whose unique geography has made it a global hub for title power.

#waternews Broken Hill's Barrier Truth 12/11/2022