Compare and contrast: El Niño weather is leading to droughts and power cuts in South America

NPR

A drought, brought about by the El Niño weather pattern, has upended life in several South American cities this year, with consequences that include water rationing and power cuts as well as forest fires.But a long spell of dry weather that began in November has depleted the reservoirs that the city depends on for its tap water, leading officials to ration water in the city of 8 million people for the first time in decades. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: Texas Flood Map Shows Where Residents Told to Evacuate

Newsweek

A flood map showed where in Harris County, Texas, residents should evacuate as heavy rain caused major flooding along the Trinity River on Tuesday night. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: Children of Flint water crisis make change as young environmental and health activists

Associated Press

Flint reconnected to its old water line shortly afterward, but pipes continued to release lead. The state provided residents filters and bottled water.“I felt responsible for forcing my child to drink something that was hurting her so bad, and I didn’t believe her”. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: Improved AI process could better predict water supplies

EurekAlert!

A new computer model uses a better artificial intelligence process to measure snow and water availability more accurately across vast distances in the West, information that could someday be used to better predict water availability for farmers and others. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: A virus could help save billions of gallons of wastewater produced by fracking E

EurekAlert!

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have identified a novel means of treating the wastewater generated by oil and gas production: bacteriophages. If the work is successful, it would give the oil and gas industry a means of treating, reusing and recycling produced water, rather than the current industry practice of disposing the majority of produced water by injecting it into the ground post oil exploration. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: Study says California’s 2023 snowy rescue from megadrought was a freak event. Don’t get used to it

Phys.org

Looking at different scenarios of emissions of heat-trapping gases in the future, she said it would be “increasingly rare” for most people alive now to see snow like this in California in the future. Her team’s calculations show that these 1-in-20 year deluges will be 58% smaller by the end of this century compared to recent decades, with even just moderate climate change. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: ‘A serious risk’: Mexican villagers take on cartel-backed avocado farms as water dries up

EuroNews Green

After enduring years of drought and ‘invading’ fruit farmers in Mexico, desperate Mexican villagers are taking direct action on commercial avocado farms that are drying up streams while a severe drought drags on. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: Is Russia ready for climate change? Mass floods expose lack of adaptation, campaigners say

EuroNews Green

Mass floods in Russia have thrown a spotlight on the country’s approach to managing the increasing risks it faces from climate change. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: Dozens dead after dam bursts amid torrential rain in Kenya

The Guardian

At least 45 people died when a makeshift dam burst its banks near a town in Kenya’s Rift valley in the early hours of Monday, police said, as torrential rains and floods hit the country. Click here to continue reading

Atlantic First Nations Water Authority partners with Dalhousie to deliver world-class water treatment

Water Canada

The Atlantic First Nations Water Authority (AFNWA) made history in 2018 by incorporating as the first Indigenous-owned and -led water utility in Canada. It was a significant step for First Nations in the region toward self-determination and control of the resource that is central to the health of their communities and protection of the environment. Click here to continue reading