After Cape Town will a breakdown of confidence bring ‘Day Zero’ to Mexico City and Bogotá?
As climate change proceeds apace, more and more cities will face serious water shortages. Will they be able to cope?
drinking water
Who knew? There are limits to growth in the American West
Limits to growth in the American West were always there. Now residents are having to face them.
America’s ‘Cadillac Desert’: Is there a substitute for fresh water?
There is no substitute for potable water—despite what economic theory may wish to assert. To get enough of it in many locales will be increasingly expensive as we turn to ever more exotic means to extract water while both population grows and climate-enhanced droughts diminish replenishment of existing sources.
West Virginia’s Elk River Chemical Spill and How We Measure Progress
It’s a cruel irony for the 300,000 West Virginians forced to turn off their taps for five to ten days… will count as a plus according to…GDP.