WaterResources
Desperate Mexican villagers are taking direct action on commercial avocado farms that are drying up streams while a severe drought drags on. Rivers and even whole lakes are disappearing in the once green and lush state of Michoacan, in the mountains west of Mexico City. Drought has combined with a surge in the use of water for the country’s lucrative export crops, led by avocados. In recent days, subsistence farmers and activists from the Michoacan town of Villa Madero organised teams to go into the mountains and rip out illegal water pumps and breach unlicensed irrigation holding ponds. A pot...
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Every day at work we’re sending emails, saving documents, adding numbers to spreadsheets. Outside of work we frivolously snap photos on our phone. In summary, we’re incessant data producers but how much of it do you ever delete? By 2035 we are predicted to be producing 2,000 zettabytes of data. One zettabyte is equal to a trillion gigabytes. To put that into context further, to print out one zettabyte of data you’d need around 20 trillion trees worth of paper. There’s only 3.5 trillion trees on Earth. In this episode of The Big Question, Matt Harris, Senior Vice-President and Managing Director...
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Standing in a field of apple trees in Catalonia, fruit and cereal farmer Ramón Falguera looks worried. Last year, fruit harvests dropped by around a third and wheat by half due to a lack of rain and restrictions on water use in this area of northeast Spain. The water canal used for irrigating the farmland, which stems from rivers born in the Pyrenees mountains, only opened for a month last spring for the first time since it was built 160 years ago. The drought is thought to be the worst in 200 years, hitting large swathes of the region following more than three years of low rainfall and record...
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The Spanish region of Catalonia is experiencing one of the worst droughts in living memory. At no point in the last century have water shortages been so severe. Last month, officials in the northeast Spanish region declared a drought emergency, with reservoirs that serve six million people - including the population of Barcelona - under 16 percent of their capacity - a historic low. Spain has seen three years of below-average rainfall amid record high temperatures, and conditions are only expected to get worse because of climate change, which is predicted to impact the Mediterranean area faste...
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The European Commission is finalising a plan to increase Europe’s ‘water resilience’ amid increasingly erratic weather climate breakdown, a challenge environment commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius has likened to the recent energy crisis, and as Catalonia has declared a drought emergency. The Catalan news came just days after the Spanish region’s water reserves fell below 16% following 40 months of below average rainfall. The first days of 2024 saw the EU mobilise its civil protection mechanism as parts of Germany and northern France were hit by severe flooding. Meanwhile citizens of north-eas...
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