#watershortage — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #watershortage, aggregated by home.social.
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Unraveling The Drivers Of Water Shortage Across Spatial Scales And Sectors In Colorado's West Slope River Basins
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2026EF008137 <-- shared paper
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['sorry' about your Kentucky Bluegrass, almonds, etc... /s]
H/T Sai Veena Sunkara | Postdoctoral Associate
“…Colorado’s West Slope basins provide nearly 70% of the inflows to Lake Powell and are also essential to communities, agriculture, industry, hydropower, and downstream Colorado River users.
To examine the wide range of possible futures, [they] simulated 2.1 million years, defining 20,000 plausible scenarios applying changes to streamflow, snowmelt timing, drought persistence, and agricultural, municipal, and industrial water demand.
A key finding is that there is 𝗻𝗼 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀. The most influential drivers vary by basin, sector, and water user. In some areas, shortages are driven primarily by persistent low-flow conditions or changing snowmelt timing. In others, increasing municipal, industrial, or irrigation demand plays a larger role. This suggests that adaptation strategies must be tailored to specific basins and users rather than relying on a single, system-wide solution. Other major findings are
• West Slope deliveries to Lake Powell could fall more than 50% below the current median baseline
• Storage in major West Slope reservoirs could decline 40–55% below historical medians
These results underscore the need for water-planning approaches that account for deep uncertainty, persistent drought, shifting snowmelt patterns, and sector-specific demand…”
#Colorado #waterallocation #StateMod #USWest #USA #WesternSlope #waterresources #watersecurity #watershortage #drought #snowmelt #rainfall #precipitation #riverbasin #water #hydrography #hydrology #reasons #agriculture #industry #hydropower #streamflow #surfacewater #municipal #irrigation #adaptationstrategies #planning #policy #mitigation #ColoradoRiver #basins #climatechange #extremeweather #populationpressure #waterdemand #waterrights #model #modeling #HiddenMarkovModel #stochastic #projecteddemand #ColoradoRiverBasin #wateruse #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #strategy -
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Admission of guilt: Ukraine blasts Russia’s planned withdrawal from torture prevention convention — Powerful explosion rocks Russian oil pipeline supplying Moscow — Across occupied Ukraine, Russia has caused a devastating water crisis it cannot fix — [vlog] Why Russia’s war won’t end yet … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-28-2025/
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Was woken up out of a dead sleep by an emergency alert from the City of Calgary that told me to not shower because there is a water shortage.
First as tragedy, then as farce indeed.
#YYC #WaterShortage #WaterRestrictions #ClimateChange #WaterMainBreak #ThereIsNoWarInBaSingSe
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It's so bad in #Mexico, even the #police are #protesting!
Mexico’s #drought, #heatwave and #WaterShortage are so bad even police are blocking traffic in #protest
AP, May 22, 2024
"Mexico’s drought, heatwave and water shortages have gotten so bad that even police blocked traffic in protest Wednesday.
"In recent months, residents of some #MexicoCity neighborhoods have regularly taken to forming #HumanChains to block boulevards to demand water. In April, complaints about #ContaminatedWater sparked a weeks-long crisis in one upscale neighborhood.
"Normally, police seek to redirect traffic, but on Wednesday some officers were themselves manning a protest blockade, near the capital’s iconic Independence Monument.
"The officers stood blocking six lanes of traffic, saying their barracks hadn’t had water for a week, and that the bathrooms were unusable.
"'We don’t have water in the bathrooms,' said one female officer who would not give her name for fear of reprisals, adding that conditions in the barracks were intolerable. 'They make us sleep on the floor,' she said."
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #DontFightUsJoinUs #Protest #WaterIsLife
