Around One-quarter of the Global Population Faces Severe Water Shortages and More Conflict Extreme water shortages are being experienced around the world, from Indian to Yemen, the African Sahel to areas in Central America, and at this point, one-quarter of the global population people lack sufficient water resources. These water shortages are driving unrest, internal […]
The effects of climate change will include new precipitation patterns that will affect agriculture. The effects of climate change include rising sea levels, increasing storm intensity and changing drought and precipitation patterns. While the first two impacts will wreak havoc on coastal and land-based communities alike, the last impact will shift where in the country […]
Meat From Animals Raised in Water-Scarce Areas Can Affect Virtual Water The video below traces the virtual water — or embedded water — it takes to produce US meat and ethanol to better understand potential risks in water-scarce areas. The video explains the results of a study by University of Minnesota researchers who looked at […]
Toxic Algae is a Problem for Drinking Water Toxic algae has made Iowa’s Des Moines River “essentially unusable” for drinking water without intensive — and expensive — treatment, Des Moines Water Works leaders said. To get the river up to drinking water standards requires huge effort and costs to remove the toxin that comes from […]
Water Conservation Activities in the US Water conservation activities in the United States most often include asking people to change their habits and behaviors in and around their houses. Activities like taking shorter showers and turning off the water when they brush their teeth – in other words, limiting tap water use – generally make […]
Craft Brewery Recycles Toilet Water Craft Breweries use a lot of water to make their beer: they use water to irrigate barley and hops and to process their beer. On average, North American breweries use seven gallons of water to make one gallon of beer. To lessen this burden, a handful of breweries have experimented with treated wastewater […]
The NYC Watershed Protection Program The NYC Watershed Protection Program is working well but now must change to meet the coming challenges climate change will present, according to a recent evaluation by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS). The city’s drinking water system supplies about 1 billion gallons of water a day […]
Snowpacks in the Western US are trending smaller because of climate change, and the dwindling runoff that supplies meltwater to the Colorado River is a sign that western water supplies are threatened. Snowpack, Snow Drought and the Western US Snowpacks in the United States are a critical water reserve, but climate change induced hot spots […]
COVID-19 Exposes Water Problems for Native Americans For some Native Americans, water scarcity and lack of clean drinking water access within homes has made the spread of COVID-19 even worse. The Navajo Nation, for example, has become a coronavirus hot spot that even surpassed New York State for the highest per capita infection rate countrywide. […]
