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The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said on Tuesday that Gaza’s last seawater desalination plant had shut down, bringing the risk of further deaths and waterborne diseases such as cholera and dysentery. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...#water
UN agency warns residents exposed to cholera and dysentery as city’s last seawater desalination plant closes
Last week, hours before CA sued Exxon for its decades of climate deception, the Wall Street Journal released explosive new documents further exposing Exxon's history of deceit. IMHO they tell a slightly different, even more damning story than the one being reported. 1/n www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Internal documents show what the oil giant said publicly was very different from how it approached the issue privately in the Tillerson era
Global Supplies of Sugar, Rice at Risk From Looming Thai Drought The Thai government has advised farmers to avoid 2nd rice crop to conserve water. The drought is expected to fuel inflation and inhibit economic recovery.
Thailand is preparing contingency plans to deal with a potential drought that could last years and squeeze global supplies of sugar and rice.
China floods: Xi Jinping urges action as rains kill 15 and displace thousands Scientists have warned the country to expect ‘multiple natural disasters’ this month including typhoons and high temperatures
Scientists have warned the country to expect ‘multiple natural disasters’ this month including typhoons and high temperatures
Russian forces built a makeshift dam to cause flooding around the occupied city of Tokmak prior to Ukraine’s counter-offensive.
Russia created a dam that backed up water on the outskirts of the occupied city of Tokmak in Zaporizhzhia oblast ahead of Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
"We're designing infrastructure generally to the wrong standards for precipitation risk" Infrastructure projects funded through the IlJ using NOAA's Atlas14 data are "instantly decades out of date" #water #climate
NOAA is incorporating decades-old records into current estimates while excluding the effects of climate change.
Had a blast yesterday interrogating the latest USGS water cycle diagrams with my grad students - feels good to be teaching water the way I've come to know it