Joseph Romm, Climate Progress. August 18, 2008. McCain might have just lost Colorado after saying he wanted to renegotiate a 1922 water deal and take water from Colorado and New Mexico.
Abigail Brown, Water For The Ages. August 14, 2008. Contrary to popular belief, the Middle East isn't entirely desert. But now even those fertile valleys fed by the Tigris and Euphrates are at risk.
Ahmed Ali, Dahr Jamail, IPS News. August 12, 2008. With temperatures sky-high and drought on its way, Iraqis in need of electricity are looking to Iran for relief.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. July 18, 2008. In California there were 8,000 lightning strikes in one event, and that was months before fire season. There is more of that in store across the West.
Dr. Reese Halter, AlterNet. June 30, 2008. The 850 fires burning in California alone should be a wake up call that we're unprepared for rapid climate change.
Sarah Bates, Science Progress. June 17, 2008. The failure to connect land-use and water planning may have far-reaching and increasingly unacceptable consequences.
Elizabeth Nash, Independent UK. May 28, 2008. Barcelona is in the grip of a water crisis on a scale never seen before in modern-day Europe and now has to import water from France.
Ernest Waititu, Indypendent. April 29, 2008. In Ethiopia, violence breaks out as water turns to sand and climate change takes hold. It may be a warning to the rest of the world.
David Gutierrez, Natural News. April 15, 2008. Available freshwater supplies are dwindling across the country due to rising temperatures, droughts, increasing sprawl and population.
Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor. April 10, 2008. Rivers fed by melting glaciers across Latin America may soon dry up, forcing changes on the people who depend upon them.
Todd Wilkinson, Christian Science Monitor. March 6, 2008. A new book reveals that the Earth's distant past can predict the crises that may lie in our future.
Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor. February 15, 2008. Drought-stricken Georgia is eyeing a stretch of the Tennessee River that has long been part of a border feud.
Peter N. Spotts, Christian Science Monitor. February 13, 2008. Scientists reported that Lakes Mead and Powell stand a 50 percent chance of running dry by 2021.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. November 25, 2007. As droughts reach record levels worldwide, no one is asking the tough question: What happens when there is not enough water to go around?
Geoffrey Lean, The Independent UK. November 24, 2006. The continent burning into a desert Nowhere is the effect of global warming more dangerous than in Somalia, where the worst drought in 40 years is affecting the lives of 1.8 million people.
