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