https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/15/drought-leaves-millions-in-uruguay-without-tap-water-fit-for-drinking

"By Latin American standards, Uruguay is a high-income country and it has historically thought of itself as having abundant water resources. Those who warned of diminishing supplies were considered catastrophists and investment was postponed."

Well, that's is an uncomfortably relatable quote to any #Canadian who is concerned with what's happening to #water in this country...

#ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #WaterPolitics #CanadianPolitics #CanPoli #WaterProtectors

@albertonuno7 yes - it is really wrong. I read an article about this recently and was trying to find it just now - then saw so many, going back to 2016. Hope 2023 will be a turning point for this, too. #Spain #Drought #WaterPolitics #ClimateDiary

A great Central Valley writer whose phenomenal book on how Tulare Lake was drained is of course Mark Arax. The King of California, co-authored with Rick Wartzman, tells how Boswell drained Tulare Lake to grow cotton and was part of shaping the over-extractive agricultural culture that persists in California's valley today: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/mark-arax/the-king-of-california/9780786752799/

#SJVwater #KingofCalifornia #MarkArax #book #books #bookrecommendations #agriculture #farming #SanJoaquin #CentralValley #TulareLake #weather #california #flood #atmosphericriver #history #agribusiness #storm #tularecounty #WaterPolitics @bookstadon

The drama was high on the Tulare Lake bed Saturday as flood waters pushed some landowners to resort to heavy handed and, in one instance, illegal tactics, to try and keep their farm ground dry — even at the expense of other farmers and some small communities.
Someone illegally cut the banks of Deer Creek in the middle of the night causing water to rush toward the tiny town of Allensworth. https://sjvwater.org/high-drama-ugly-deeds-politics-and-moments-of-kindness-swirl-amid-the-waters-of-a-re-emerging-tulare-lake/ #cawx #flooding #waterpolitics #centralvalley

Extraordinary finds under the dried reservoir of "Sadam's dam" I learnt about in my undergrad studies. After the hunger stones in Europe this summer, I'm curious to see what else #climatechange will uncover. The water however is more important
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/11/15/zakhiku-the-ancient-city-in-iraq-revealed-by-severe-drought
#iraq #SOAS #waterpolitics