#waterscarcity — Public Fediverse posts
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Climate-driven water scarcity increases wheat prices globally: Interdisciplinary study involving researchers from #MainzUniversity connects drought across the world's wheat-growing regions with global markets // #ClimateChange #WaterScarcity #agriculture #wheat
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/08/24/climate-driven-water-scarcity-increases-wheat-prices-globally -
Climate-driven water scarcity increases wheat prices globally: Interdisciplinary study involving researchers from #MainzUniversity connects drought across the world's wheat-growing regions with global markets // #ClimateChange #WaterScarcity #agriculture #wheat
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/08/24/klimabedingte-wasserknappheit-laesst-weizenpreise-weltweit-steigen -
Climate-driven water scarcity increases wheat prices globally: Interdisciplinary study involving researchers from #MainzUniversity connects drought across the world's wheat-growing regions with global markets 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/climate-driven-water-scarcity-increases-wheat-prices-globally/
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Severe water scarcity across major wheat-growing regions explained about 74% of annual variation in global wheat prices from 2000 to 2021, while modeling projects average prices could reach $273 per tonne at 2°C of warming and $364 at 3°C.
#GlobalWheatPrices #WaterScarcity #ClimateImpactOnAgriculture https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025EF006095
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Put together a sourced timeline: England Drought 2026: Live Status & Full Timeline.
https://aitimeline.in/england-drought-timeline-water-scarcity-4112/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=england-drought-timeline-water-scarcity
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Ah, yes, the epic tale of Californian aquifers: where the existential crisis of water scarcity meets the thrilling adventure of browser settings! 🌊💻🔒 It seems the real "point of no return" isn't the aquifer, but your ability to navigate past JavaScript alerts. 🕵️♂️✨
https://www.science.org/content/article/california-aquifer-may-have-crossed-point-no-return #CalifornianAquifers #WaterScarcity #BrowserSettings #JavaScriptAlerts #TechAdventure #HackerNews #ngated -
De aarde staat op instorten – en AI versnelt het.
In 2009 introduceerden wetenschappers de planetaire grenzen: 9 kritische drempels die onze planeet leefbaar houden. We hebben er al 6 overschreden. Gevolg? Extreme weersomstandigheden, voedseltekorten, watercrisissen en massale migratie. De aarde verliest haar vermogen om schokken op te vangen.
Maar er is een onzichtbare boosdoener die deze crisis versnelt: AI.
🔥 Energieverslinding: Datacenters slurpen stroom – vaak op fossiele brandstoffen.
💧 Wateruitputting: Miljarden liters water gaan op aan koelsystemen voor servers, in regio’s die al droog staan.
⚠️ E-waste explosie: Verouderde hardware belandt als giftig afval in ontwikkelingslanden, waar het grondwater vergiftigt.
🌍 Overconsumptie: AI drijft hyperconsumptie aan – meer productie, meer afval, meer uitputting van de aarde.
AI is geen oplossing. AI is een bedreiging.
De keuze is duidelijk: of we remmen de ongeremde groei van AI af, of we accepten dat we de planeet verder de afgrond in duwen.
#PlanetaryBoundaries #ClimateCrisis #AI #Sustainability #EnvironmentalImpact #FutureOfEarth #GreenTech #ClimateAction #Ewaste #WaterScarcity
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Another superficial #ABCNews piece which barely tells us anything beyond local councils vetoing town water use for renewable projects. There is no investigation, no analysis and no tangible information beyond reporting the ban and that water is required for concrete (and “building transformers” ? That’s a new one to me). Adds nothing to the well known scarcity of potable water sources on the world’s driest continent. Well done ABC… NOT.
The author’s only saving grace, besides making readers aware that water is a scarce commodity, is to confirm that Data Centres are water guzzlers — you can find a reference to the latter in a throwaway sentence at the very end of the article.
#WaterScarcity #RenewableProjects #RenewableEnergyZones #REZs #CouncilBans #PotableWaterSupply #AusPol #NSW #NewEngland #Walcha #Tamworth #DataCentres #ThisIsNotJournalism #ReportingIsNotJournalism
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RE: https://beige.party/@maxleibman/116780691670484522
Just get in the fkn rocket already, Bezos. We don't want your kind round here.
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@exaltresearch.bsky.social
water and avocados 🥑
https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/exalt-podcast/id1499621252?i=1000770122613 -
AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine builders of massive 6.2 million-square-foot facility over unauthorized water use | Tom's Hardware
#environment #datacenters #waterscarcity #freshwater #TechWillKillUs #usa #extinctionrebellion
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/georgia-data-center-used-29-million-gallons-of-water
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Water Is Quietly Becoming One of the Biggest Risks in Energy
A decade ago, China was widely expected to become a shale powerhouse. By some estimates, it holds more…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #CA #Canada #Chinashalegas #DataCenters #energyinvesting #energytransition #hydraulicfracturing #hydrogenproduction #nuclearpower #PermianBasin #Science #shaledevelopment #waterscarcity
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Water Is Quietly Becoming One of the Biggest Risks in Energy
A decade ago, China was widely expected to become a shale powerhouse. By some estimates, it holds more…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Chinashalegas #datacenters #energyinvesting #energytransition #environment #hydraulicfracturing #hydrogenproduction #nuclearpower #PermianBasin #Science #shaledevelopment #UK #UnitedKingdom #WaterScarcity
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Rio Tinto's water extraction is drying up a sacred waterhole for the Robe River Kuruma people. The company is building a new desalination plant to help.
#RobeRiver #RioTinto #WaterScarcity #IndigenousRights #Pilbara
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From Refugee Roots to “Water from Air”: The Real Story Behind Omar Yaghi’s MOF Breakthrough
Experimental MOF devices aim to turn dry air into drinking water (illustration)Dear Cherubs, sometimes reality reads like a motivational poster that got a PhD. Omar Yaghi’s journey—from a childhood in modest conditions in Amman to reshaping how we think about water—comes close, minus the stock photo sunset.
Born in Jordan and later building his academic career in the United States, Yaghi is widely recognized for pioneering metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs—materials so porous they make your kitchen sponge look emotionally unavailable. According to the American Chemical Society, MOFs are crystalline structures designed at the molecular level to trap gases and liquids, including water vapor from the air.
THE SCIENCE THAT SOUNDS LIKE MAGIC
Here’s the pitch: pull clean drinking water straight out of desert air. No pipes, no grid, just chemistry doing its quiet flex.Yaghi’s team demonstrated MOF-based devices that can capture water even in low humidity environments—think below 20 percent, where most of us would simply accept dehydration as a lifestyle. According to research published in Science and reported by MIT News, early prototypes were able to produce usable amounts of water using sunlight as the only energy source.
Now, about those headline-grabbing claims—machines generating up to 1,000 liters per day. That figure is often reported in popular summaries, but it’s not representative of current household-scale MOF devices. Most experimental systems produce far smaller quantities, though the technology is evolving. In other words: promising, not quite “infinite desert tap” just yet.
Still, the concept holds serious weight. The World Health Organization notes that billions of people lack reliable access to safe drinking water. A decentralized solution—something that works off-grid—could shift the conversation from infrastructure to independence.
FROM SCARCITY TO SCALABILITY
Yaghi has framed his work around “water independence,” a phrase that sounds like a startup pitch but lands closer to a humanitarian goal. Imagine homes generating their own water the way solar panels generate electricity. That’s not sci-fi anymore; it’s early-stage engineering with real-world implications.And yes, there’s a poetic symmetry here. A child who once waited for water deliveries every two weeks now builds systems designed to eliminate that wait entirely. It’s giving full-circle energy, minus the cliché.
As for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2025—there is currently no verified record confirming that Yaghi has received it. He has, however, been widely considered a strong candidate for years, with multiple high-profile awards already under his belt. So while the Nobel claim is, at best, premature, the impact of his work is not.
If you’re into stories where science meets survival—and occasionally humbles global infrastructure—this is one to watch. As noted by thisclaimer.com, some of the most transformative ideas tend to emerge from constraint, not comfort. Turns out, scarcity can be a pretty effective research assistant.
And if MOFs keep scaling the way researchers hope, the future might involve fewer pipelines and more… well, invisible ones. Air, but make it drinkable.
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Experimental MOF devices aim to turn dry air into drinking water (illustration) #art #books #chemistryBreakthroughs #cleanWater #desertWater #environment #futureTech #mofTechnology #omarYaghi #renewableSolutions #scienceInnovation #sustainability #travel #waterScarcity
American Chemical Society — https://www.acs.org
MIT News — https://news.mit.edu
Science Journal — https://www.science.org
World Health Organization — https://www.who.int
thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com -
This Is the First American City That Will Run Out of Water
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2QAARB4bNTE&si=kmCuSg38jSVe1i5x -
#FYI #USA #AmericanResiliency #resilience #TimesOfChange #waterSecurity #waterScarcity #drought #conflict #community #SystemCollapse
Dr. #EmilySchoerning on the #US and #global #water situation and outlook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsAiBLDSVVk
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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Since with or without #datacenters we are unwilling to stop #fossilburning all together, I give it 5-10 years - and I'm being hugely optimistic here - when all this global-data-crunching-internet-monstrosity will implode and take down our whole system with it, simply because the #extremeweather #disasters will deplete financial resources, and #waterscarcity and #famine - especially in the northern part of the globe - will break loose all hell on earth.
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Если смотреть с юридической и управленческой стороны, испарение воды часто связано не с техникой, а с правилами пользования водой и ресурсами.
1. Права на воду (water rights)
Во многих странах Африки действуют системы лицензий:
государство владеет водными ресурсами;
компания или община получает разрешение на забор определённого объёма.
Иногда дешевле испарить лишнюю воду, чем:
хранить её,
перераспределять,
нарушить лимит использования.
Это встречается в сельском хозяйстве и добывающих проектах.
2. Требования к сбросу воды
Законы по охране окружающей среды могут запрещать сбрасывать:
солёную,
химически загрязнённую,
шахтную воду.
Поэтому её помещают в испарительные пруды (evaporation ponds) — вода уходит, а загрязнение остаётся под контролем.
Это распространено в:
горнодобывающей промышленности,
нефтегазе,
переработке минералов.
3. Трансграничные водные соглашения
Многие реки проходят через несколько стран (например, бассейн Нил).
Иногда государства ограничены договорами по объёму воды, который можно удерживать или перенаправлять. В таких условиях локальные проекты используют испарительные бассейны вместо изменения русел или хранения.4. Бюрократия и инфраструктура
В ряде регионов:
нет очистных сооружений,
нет канализации,
нет систем повторного использования воды.
С точки зрения регуляторов испарительный пруд — самый простой способ соблюсти формальные нормы.
5. Горнодобыча и литий/уран
В проектах добычи минералов (рассолы, урановые хвостохранилища) регуляторы прямо требуют испарительных систем для изоляции растворов.
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Коротко: часто воду «испаряют» не из-за нехватки технологий, а потому что так проще выполнить закон, лицензии и экологические требования.
Если хочешь, могу разобрать конкретные страны — там правила сильно отличаются (например, в Намибия, ЮАР и Кения).
#Африка #ВодныеРесурсы #ВодноеПраво #Экология #ИспарительныеПруды #WaterManagement #WaterRights #Mining #SaltProduction #Desalination #Climate #WaterScarcity #EnvironmentalRegulation #Hydrology #ResourceManagement 💧🌍