South Africans say criminal gangs are exploiting the water crisis https://t.co/j8CznTBeaL ...

War is pushing Iran deeper into a water crisis, compounding the effects of climate change and decades of mismanagement by authorities https://t.co/38d6gnnMWT ...

RT DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics)🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 The U.S. struck Iranian desalination infrastructure. Strategic implications:This map shows every desalination plant in the Persian Gulf. Gulf state water dependency on desalination:→ Kuwait: ~100%→ Qatar: ~99%→ Bahrain: ~97%→ UAE: ~90%→ Saudi Arabia: ~70%All plants are coastal, fixed, unarmored, and within range of Iranian SRBMs (Fateh-110, 300 km), MRBMs, and low-altitude cruise missiles (Quds-1, Paveh) that fly below standard radar detection thresholds.These nation ...

For some, these are the boom times. 401ks are surging. The stock market has hit an all-time high.But drive just 350 miles from the nation's capital. And the conversation isn't about how to get rich, but how to survive. McDow County, West Virginia, was once the nation's largest coal producer.It is now one of the poorest places in the country where the food stamp program started and later the opioid crisis took hold. Today, one in three households there depends on those food stamps. And now the program that h ...

Water Crisis in Bangalore - Bangalore, India's $130 billion tech capital, faced a hydrological bankruptcy leading to a summer crisis in 2024 [4] - The crisis was caused by climate change, resulting in two consecutive years of monsoon failure, and human-induced aggravation by overexploitation of borewells [6] - During the crisis, the city faced a shortage of 500 million liters per day, equivalent to fulfilling the daily needs of 16 American average size cities with 100,000 residents [7] Solutions and Strategies - The Bangalore Water Supply Board (BWSB) devised five strategic actions to address the water crisis [8] - The BWSB installed 400 mini water distribution points initially, later expanding to 800, to provide water to urban slums [10][11] - The BWSB implemented 1 million aerators in apartments within two weeks, saving 50 million liters per day (MLD), and later expanded to 2 million aerators, saving 100 MLD in one month [14] - The BWSB convinced the construction sector and industries to use secondary and tertiary treated water instead of fresh water [15][16] - The BWSB collaborated with the Indian Institute of Science to innovate gurobacteria technology, producing 300,000 liters of gurobacteria water for cooling towers in IT parks [18] - The BWSB involved a startup company to fit IoT sensors in borewells to monitor data and sustain them for a longer time [19] Community Engagement - 9,000 volunteers enrolled as "Jal Mitras" (water friends) to spread the message of water conservation in the city [20] - More than half a million people took the water conservation pledge, marking the largest such commitment in human history [22]

A long-delayed project that South Africa’s commercial hub is banking on to end a growing water crisis has hit fresh opposition https://t.co/NUH49HK0PK ...

Taps running dry and water rationing are part of life in Bulgaria. It's a cautionary tale for the rest of Europe grappling with climate change. https://t.co/UDOpcACsJ9 ...