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Amid conflicts and climate change, UN puts focus on ‘deep trouble’ in water worldwide

For the first time in 46 years, the United Nations convened a global conference on water, creating new impetus for wide-ranging efforts to manage water more sustainably, adapt to worsening droughts and floods with climate change, and accelerate solutions for the estimated 2 billion people around the world who live…

Los Angeles Times

A scorched southwestern France braces itself for fires to come

As France frets about an extended drought and prospects for more wildfires in another long summer, one blaze that erupted eight months ago in the southwest of the country still smoulders away underground.

Reuters

Snowpack in southern Sierra hits all-time record levels, nearly triple its average

LOS ANGELES — After years of extreme drought and dismal snowpack, California has had a remarkably wet winter and is now veering into record-setting territory for snowfall.

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Indigenous leaders negotiate on water

After decades of exclusion, communities most impacted by ongoing drought insist they be heard

Salon

Newsom rolls back California drought restrictions after remarkably wet winter

DUNNIGAN, Calif. — On the heels of one of California’s wettest winters on record, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced that he will roll back some of the state’s most severe drought restrictions and dramatically increase water supplies for agencies serving 27 million people.

Los Angeles Times

California ends some water limits after storms ease drought

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ended some of the state water restrictions

The Independent UK

Much of drought-plagued West Coast faces salmon fishing ban

Federal officials are expected to prohibit king salmon fishing this season along much of the West Coast, which many predict could stretch into 2024 season as the drought and other factors take their toll on the iconic Chinook fish

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UN conference hears litany of water disasters linked to climate crisis

Accounts of global impact of floods, droughts and storms at New York meeting add to pressure to make water central to Cop28

The Guardian - US

3 reasons why California's drought isn't really over, despite all the rain

California has been deluged by storms this winter, but fixing the state's severe drought will take more than rain. The state had deeper problems in how it uses water.

WEKU

Adam Minter: Farmers can’t keep hogging the water in parched Southwest

The lush lawns and green golf courses of Southern California are an emblem of the desert Southwest’s dependence on the Colorado River. But they’re just a small part of the demands placed on this crucial water resource in times of both drought and plenty. The far bigger part, as much…

Tribune News Service

Many Australian farmers are about to get a lucky break after years of drought and floods

It has been a tumultuous five years from drought to plagues to floods, but farmers across southern Australia are about to catch a lucky break — the autumn break to be precise.

ABC News

Farmers struggle in Argentina as drought withers their crops

The ground crackles as Guillermo Cuitino walks through dry farmland in Argentina that should be green and lush this time of year

The Independent UK

UN warns of ‘draining humanity’s lifeblood’ amid worsening water scarcity

Secretary general urges countries to tackle ‘vampiric overconsumption’, water guzzling industries and climate crisis

The Guardian - US

Seven months pregnant and with four kids, Aisha faced an unbearable choice

Aisha's hometown is trapped between ruthless militants and the worst drought in four decades. So she made a decision no mother should have to make.

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The Independent UK

Ghost village appears out of reservoir in Spain as country hit by drought

Northeast Spain has experienced ‘exceptional’ droughts over the last month

Tribune News Service

Mark Gongloff: California’s drought is over. Its water problems aren't

California’s recent water windfall is a bit like somebody getting a big tax refund after years of dipping into their 401(k) to pay the bills. Any sense of wealth this sudden bounty engenders will be fleeting and perhaps dangerously misleading.

The Guardian - UK

Drought threatening British moth species with local extinction

Some species of insect no longer being seen in areas that are becoming drier and hotter

Salon

Big money: Calif.'s drought is not over

Those with power, money and a direct stake are staking out positions like animals around a watering hole

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Rory McIlroy takes unusual step to end major drought at Masters despite £16m-a-year deal

Rory McIlroy is without a major title in nine years - with his last coming at the 2014 PGA Championship - and in a bid to change this the Northern Irishman has a made a major equipment change

Reuters

Italy's water crisis exacerbated by leaky pipes, data shows

Italy is wasting more and more of its water from leaky aqueducts, leaving the country increasingly vulnerable to droughts, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Drought in Spain's northeast empties reservoirs

The medieval church of Sant Romà disappeared from view in the 1960s, when the town of Vilanova de Sau was flooded to create a reservoir an hour north of Barcelona

The Conversation

Kenya drought: Pastoralists suffer despite millions of dollars used to protect them -- what went wrong?

Across the arid landscape of northern Kenya, roadside signs proclaim projects aimed at creating “resilience” among pastoralist communities. This is a region where frequent droughts, animal disease, insecurity and structural exclusion all affect pastoral livelihoods.

The Guardian - UK

Drought caused 43,000 ‘excess deaths’ in Somalia last year, half of them young children

New report uncovers tragic scale of climate-led crisis and forecasts up to 34,000 more deaths so far this year

The Independent UK

African nations consider swapping debt for climate funding

African countries saddled with debt and ravaged by losses and damages from extreme weather events like cyclones, drought and extreme temperatures have agreed to consider swapping debt to invest in climate action in a meeting of finance ministers in the Ethiopian capital

Tribune News Service

Somalia drought claimed as many as 43,000 lives last year

As many as 43,000 people are estimated to have died in Somalia last year as a result of the east African nation’s worst drought in more than four decades, according to the government and United Nations agencies.

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