Christian Thorsberg

3 weeks ago | circleofblue.org | Christian Thorsberg

A mass fish die-off in Iraq’s marshlands is the latest hit to a region troubled by drought and water scarcity. Ongoing drought is expected to drop China’s national wheat harvest to its lowest output since 2018. The amount of salt entering Washington, D.C. waterways has steadily increased over the past few winters, studies show. Flooding in central Romania has forced evacuations after a stream overtopped and broke through a dam protecting a major salt mine.

3 weeks ago | circleofblue.org | Christian Thorsberg

Communities in North Sumatra, Indonesia, are celebrating a ‘fragile win’ following the revocation of a controversial mine’s permit to build a tailings dam. India’s push to increase renewable energy output — which centers the production of green hydrogen — may be limited by water scarcity, studies show. In one of Nigeria’s worst floods of recent memory, 700 people in the central market city of Mokwa are feared dead.

1 month ago | circleofblue.org | Christian Thorsberg

A new study finds that groundwater withdrawals from the Colorado River basin have risen sharply over the past two decades, with cities like Phoenix forecast to reach depletion by century’s end. Prolonged drought around San Antonio, Texas, has prompted local authorities to require customers to cut their groundwater withdrawals nearly in half. Global technology companies are eyeing Brazil for their newest data centers, despite recent years of drought and water scarcity.

1 month ago | circleofblue.org | Christian Thorsberg

Dredging and a continued loss of sediment in British Columbia’s Fraser River threatens the delta’s salmon populations, farmland, and resistance to floods. Vulnerable lesser flamingos have lost one of their four African breeding sites following the dumping of untreated sewage at a South African dam. Namibia, facing one of its worst droughts in over a century, has secured funding to improve water infrastructure and access.

1 month ago | circleofblue.org | Christian Thorsberg

Because of drought in Syria’s growing regions, the country’s annual wheat production is projected to drop by three-fourths. Extreme weather — primarily drought and heavy rainfall — costs the European Union nearly $32 billion in agricultural losses each year. The French government and Nestlé are again being investigated for colluding to conceal the filtering and sterilization of Perrier’s “natural” water.