drinkingwater
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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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 United Nations is investigating the environmental impact of the war in Gaza, which has caused a catastrophic spike in land, soil and water pollution. It is hard to know where to begin, since the conflict has no end in sight. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by relentless Israeli strikes since 7 October, when Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 Israelis and took 250 people hostage. Given the dangerous situation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is not yet able to undertake field-based surveys in Gaza. But it has accepted an official request from the State of...
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The European Commission has apparently suspended plans to boost water resilience, resulting in fury from green groups and industry bodies alike. The EU initiative, announced in September by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, was set to address increasingly frequent periods of drought and flooding that have had a devastating impact across Europe, and have been linked to climate change. Maroš Šefčovič, the commission vice-president responsible for green policy, was scheduled to present the plans on 12 March, sending what proponents hoped would be a strong message to the next administrati...
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