Colorado's hydrofracking boom — a technology that heavily relies on water — only adds additional strain as farmers and drillers bid for a scarce resource.
An "unprecedented" rise in the demand for food as the population grows, rapid urbanization and climate change are the drivers of increasing global water stress.
During the Great Ritalin Scare of 1993, shortages prompted thousands to switch to Adderall. Now, Shire is contriving an Adderall drought to convert patients to a new ADD drug.
Lending policies pushed by the World Bank and IMF transformed a self-sufficient, food-producing Africa into a continent vulnerable to food emergencies and famine.
Conflict-ridden Somalia is the worst affected nation, but the drought has hit parts of Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Djibouti, with 12 million people needing emergency aid.
But for some reason we're loathe to take the next step and connect the dots of extreme floods, heat waves, droughts, and storms popping up across the map.
In less than 7 years, groundwater in the Central Valley leaked away by an amount equal to 63 percent of the capacity of Lake Mead, our country's biggest reservoir.
Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360. February 3, 2011.
Mali's president and Libyan leader Gaddafi have begun a major agricultural project that will divert much of the river's water and put the delta's future at risk.
A disruption or shifts in the oscillation is an explanation for moist or harsh winters in Europe, or severe summer droughts such as in Russia, in recent years.
