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12 Jan 2021 MADRID, Spain
Human Depletion Of Groundwater Resources Exacerbates Climate Change Impacts
Large swathes of land in densely populated parts of the world are subsiding rapidly as a result of groundwater depletion. Paired with rising sea levels caused by global warming, this could place many coastal cities at risk of severe flooding by 2040. A UNESCO-funded report published on the Policy Forum of Science Journal deploys a large-scale review of subsidence over the past century and predictions of subsidence susceptibility modelled using a combination of spatial and statistical analyses...
17 Dec 2020 Glasgow, Scotland
US Will Host A Climate Summit In First Quarter Of 2021
United States President-elect Joe Biden has announced that the US will host a climate summit of the world’s major economies before the end of March 2021. Biden has already committed the US re-joining the Paris Climate Agreement on the day of his inauguration in January.The announcement follows a virtual "Climate Ambition Summit" co-hosted by the UN, the United Kingdom, Britain, France, Italy, and Chile on 12-13 Decmber which was organised to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris accord and was held in lieu of the originally-scheduled COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, which will now happen in November 2021...
11 Dec 2020 SAN JOSE, Costa Rica
Hurricanes Aggravate Economic Crisis In Central America; Migration Expected To Rise; Waterborne Disease Risk
Back-to-back tropical storms in Honduras, Guatemela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica in recent weeks, have caused widespread destruction of crops and homes, precipitating the need for urgent humanitarian assistance.Countries are already suffering from food insecurity, economic downturn and the loss of jobs and livelihoods due to COVID-19...
8 Dec 2020 MEXICO CITY
Serious Water Well Contamination In Mexico's Rio Sonora Valley
Mexico's Commission for Protection Against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) said in a letter this month that about 99% of wells tested in the Rio Sonora valley contain concentrations of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals that exceed Mexico’s safety standards, and pose a serious health risk. For more than six years, residents of communities downstream from Grupo Mexico’s Buenavista copper mine have pushed the government to ensure the water they use in their homes, for agricultural purposes and livestock is safe...
3 Nov 2020 MEXICO CITY
Mexico Prez Accused Of Water Debt Surrender To Please Trump
Just prior to the deadline [of October 24], Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed to have solved the issue, by arranging to transfer the water from two separate dams to U.S. ownership. He also announced the arrest of six members of the national guard for their involvement in the death of Jessica Silva...
15 Sep 2020 MEXICO CITY, Mexico
Two Farmers Killed By Military Police At La Boquilla Dam
Two protesting farmers at the Boquilla Dam in Chihuahua, Mexico were killed by military police 9 September following altercations including stone-throwing, Molotov cocktails and occupation the dam’s control centre.The farmers’ protest has arisen as a result of plans to divert more water from the drought-affected region to the United States to fulfill “water debt” obligations accruing under a 1944 water-sharing treaty...
5 Aug 2020 MEXICO CITY
Mexico: Canadian Silver Mine Cleared Of Water Contamination Accusations
Mexico’s Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection issued a report stating that the subsidiary of Canada’s Fortuna Silver Mines, Compañía Minera Cuzcatlán, has not caused any pollution to rainwater collection ponds in the Magdalena Ocotlán municipality in the southern Oaxaca state. The government agency reached its conclusion after inspecting Fortuna Silver Mines’ San José silver-gold mine...
5 Aug 2020 LA PAZ
Mexico Environmental Organisations Want Answers About Water Resources For New Real Estate Development
A group of non-profit organizations wants the municipal council in La Paz, Baja California Sur, to explain where the water and other services will come from to serve new real estate developments that have been announced in the area. At least nine environmental organizations, have, for the second time, asked La Paz Mayor Rubén Muñoz Álvarez to take into account the city’s water shortage when considering approving real estate projects.
19 May 2020 Mexico CITY
Mexico Trade Union Accuses Mining Company Of Polluting Freshwater Supply
The Mining, Metallurgical, Siderurgical and Similar Workers Union of the Mexican Republic, known as Los Mineros, has accused Minera Adularia Exploración, a mining company linked to New York-based The Electrum Group of polluting the Neutla community freshwater supply.The union says that Adularia has been dumping tonnes of toxic waste from its Celaya- ANP mine in the town’s drinking water well...
12 Mar 2020 MEXICALI, Mexico
US Corona Exporters' Plans Will Be Subject To Mexico Referendum
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has announced plans to conduct a binding public vote March 21-22 on whether a controversial brewery in the northern city of Mexcali should proceed. The local community and farmers have resisted the US brewers Constellation Brands plant since 2016 on the basis that the demands of the brewery will further strain already scarce regional water resources...
27 Dec 2019 MEXICO CITY
New Measures To Clean Up Mexico's Rio Sonora
Mexican Secretary of Environment Victor Toledo promised to transform the Sonora River Valley from the site of a disaster into a region of hope. In August 2014, Grupo México’s Buenavista copper mine spilled nearly 11 million gallons of toxic waste into the Sonora and Bacanuchi rivers. It’s considered the worst mining disaster in Mexican history...
5 Nov 2019 EDINBURGH, United Kingdom
"The Future Of Water Stewardship": aquaNOW Audience 11 November
Tune in 4.30 PM UK time Monday 11 November HERE for the next “aquaNOW Audience”!The Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, Scotland, will host the interactive panel discussion, produced by OOSKAnews, engaging international water experts and Scottish expertise in global water-related challenges and solutions, filmed before a live audience and streamed online to a global viewership, with the theme "The Future Of Water Stewardship"...