Water Scarcity

Sustainability leadership by NGOs is well recognized around the world as the type of organization that has contributed the most toward sustainable development since the Rio Earth Summit. While this finding from our latest Sustainability Leaders Survey of exp…

Last Monday, Prof. Stephen Walt published a controversial article on his Foreign Policy blog. The title (which he did not choose and has since been changed) was regrettable: Who Will Invade Brazil to Save the Amazon? Written as part of the fallout from Br…

Rio Grande drought Susan Montoya Bryan/Associated Press A global water crisis looms, and US states are not immune to it.  New Mexico faces the same degree of water stress as the United Arab Emirates the 10th most water-stressed country in the world  accord…

A global water crisis looms, and US states are not immune to it. New Mexico faces the same degree of water stress as the United Arab Emirates — the 10th most water-stressed country in the world — according to a new report from the World Resources Institute…

A quarter of the world’s population residing in seventeen countries is facing “extremely high” levels of baseline water shortages, using over 80 percent of the local renewable supply, updated Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas data compiled by the World Resources Inst…

One-quarter of the worlds population faces extremely high levels of baseline water stress, which means that irrigated agriculture, industries, and municipalities withdraw more than 80% of their available supply on average every year, new data from the World R…

An analysis released Tuesday warns that 17 countries which are collectively home to a quarter of the global population face “extremely high water stress” that is on track to get worseparticularly because of the human-caused climate emergency. The data is par…

The Last Well, a nonprofit organization based in Rockwall, Texas, is committed to bringing safe drinking water and gospel to Liberia by 2020. At a one-day Legislative Information Sharing and Engagement (LISE) session held on Monday, August 5, 2019, in Monrov…

India is among the 17 countries facing "extremely high" water stress. (Representational image)Washington: India is among the 17 countries, which are a home to a quarter of the world's population, facing "extremely high" water stress, close to "Day Zero" condi…

What does it take to overthrow a dictator? Reflecting on this question in exile, Leon Trotsky wrote in History of the Russian Revolution (1930): There is no doubt that the fate of every revolution at a certain point is decided by a break in the disposition o…