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As the US Drought Monitor recorded more than 70% of the country as Abnormally Dry or, worse, under Moderate, Severe, Extreme, or Exceptional Drought conditions this month, the House Science Committee held a hearing to examine the role of the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) in drought planning. While federal…
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12 months ago Governments and NGOs raced to East Africa to prevent a humanitarian disaster caused by the worst drought in 60 years.
They responded to dire warnings that 12 million people were threatened by malnutrition after rain had failed to arrive for the second year in a row.
Livestock was dying, crops were failing and a crisis was…
The Aqueduct Alliance, a tool to create maps using hydrological data and geographically specific details, allows companies and investors to see water availability in a number of large river basins. Detailed water risk maps can be created and water shortages can be predicted up til 2095, according to Alertnet.
However some critics, such as Lori Pottinge…
By Rochelle Jones/Friday Files
The Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, with effects already being felt in sectors such as agriculture, water resources, forestry and tourism. But what mechanisms are in place to ensure women’s involvement in climate change processes?
AWID interviewed Dr. Netatua Pelesik…
Johannesburg - The massive hydropower dams built on the Zambezi River, the largest river system in Southern Africa, not only supply power to major economies in the region but also help mitigate annual floods. But as electricity demands grow and rising global temperatures affect rainfall patterns, the dams will be unable to meet energy needs or control f…
Machinga - Mposa Village, in south-eastern Malawi’s Machinga District, used to sit on the shores of Lake Chilwa. Now its residents, who have long relied on the lake to earn a living, have to walk two hours to reach its edge.
Lake Chilwa, Malawi’s second largest lake, used to measure 60km by 40km, but it is shrinking after two years of below-average rai…
New Zealand is contributing NZ$5 million to a disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation project in the southern province of Ben Tre, Vietnam.
The Building Resilience to Disaster and Climate Risks of Men and Women in Ben Tre Province is a five year project which will help communities and local authorities in the Mekong delta adapt to climate…
Arid conditions in the Sahel and large-scale flooding in East Africa will help sustain Africa’s reputation for socio-political volatility and state failure. To manage the chaos in the worst-affected regions, argues Fawzia Sheikh, greater international participation will be necessary to boost the Continent’s resiliency.
By Fawzia Sheikh for ISN Security…
by Johan Schaar and Heather McGray
What do you do when extended droughts make your family’s traditional farming vocation harder and harder to sustain? Or when your town’s water supply is no longer sufficient for people to draw water from their wells, forcing them to buy water from private suppliers? Or when the weakening agricultural economy leads fam…
By Bruce Dunn and Cristina R. Velez
Protecting and enhancing natural ecosystems and biodiversity can increase resilience in Asia and the Pacific.
Introduction
Why are people in Asia and the Pacific particularly vulnerable to climate change? The answers may lie in a combination of factors that literally creates a “perfect storm”: a…
Climate change will continue to make extreme weather events such as floods and drought more likely in future years, and cities, towns and villages must be resilient. Decisive policy action is needed to mitigate these risks. About 5 million properties in the UK are currently at risk of flooding. Protection from floods in the UK over the past years has to…
Diversity is strength, even among forests. In a paper published in Nature, researchers led by University of Utah biologist William Anderegg report that forests with trees that employ a high diversity of traits related to water use suffer less of an impact from drought. The results, which expand on previous work that looked at individual tree specie…
By Katrin Bruebach, Martine Sobey, and Liz Agbor-Tabi
In the face of a looming ‘Day Zero,’ the people of Cape Town reduced water consumption by more than 50 percent when compared to pre-drought levels. This impressive response was precipitated by a series of water demand management mechanisms instituted by the City administration, including advanced pr…
By Matt Weiser
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The major cities of the Southwest – Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, Las Vegas – currently get most of their freshwater from the Colorado River or its tributaries. That river, however, is experiencing its 19th straight drought year, suggesting a new permanent dry state is gripping the giant watershed.
As a result, gro…
It’s late July and there are wisps of clouds scattered in the muddy sky. Whether the clouds will usher the much-awaited rains doesn’t bother Korale Raghu, a middle-aged farmer of Hondure village in Sira administrative block, 70 km from Tumakuru and an hour-and-half car ride from the southern city of Bengaluru in Karnataka.
Belo…