[New] Water Gap, described as the first unified strategy to achieve universal access to safe, running water and working sanitation in every American home by 2040.
Informed Infrastructure
[New] Though drought conditions have improved in the Southern Plains overall since June, portions of Northern Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas continue to face significant drought challenges, including increasing wildfire risk and harming crops, rangelands and water supplies.
Drought.gov
[New] By 2055 England will need to find an additional 5 billion liters of water a day to meet demand for public water supply.
BBC Weather
[New] While the Strait of Hormuz, through which nearly a quarter of the world's oil exports pass, remains under the threat of closure, military operations now extend to energy and water infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Iraq, and Iran.
Financial Afrik
[New] Parallelly, expanding storage capacity across the Brahmaputra basin will help mitigate risks of flooding and seasonal water stress arising from Chinese interventions.
Drishti IAS
[New] Ultimately, by implementing smart digital meters, treating water reuse as a multi-crore circular business opportunity, and shifting agriculture toward micro-irrigation, India can build a water-secure future.
Insights IAS
[New] One silver lining is that parched regions like the Colorado River Basin could get deluged with rain and snow, boosting water supplies.
Earth Island Journal
[New] Middle East and Africa are projected to witness steady growth due to the increasing adoption of water-efficient farming technologies, controlled environment agriculture, and climate-resilient agricultural practices in response to harsh climatic conditions.
Market Data Forecast
Eastern Border Cities: Urban areas in Eastern New Mexico, most notably Clovis and Portales, are facing severe long-term threats to their survival as their primary water reserves dry up.
Coyote Gulch
New Mexico will lose 25% to 30% of its available water by 2050.
Coyote Gulch
As leakage and demand targets are already very ambitious, the only solution to deliver new supply is to increase the amount of water taken from the environment - which may be harmful - or to build new supplies, and major reservoirs can take 15 years to plan and build, Water UK wrote.
The Guardian
The UK will not have enough water for future datacenters.
The Guardian
More than one million properties could face delays unless new water resources are developed. / UK
Water Magazine
The EIR estimated the additional investment needs for the implementation of pollution prevention and control policies, and for water protection, management and industries, at €69.4 billion per year from 2021 to 2027.
Bruegel | The Brussels-based economic think tank
As flooding disasters and water scarcity worsen in the Himalayan region, nuclear-armed China, India, and Pakistan will compete for increasingly scarce strategic water, land, and energy resources.
DataDrivenInvestor
England faces a potential water-supply shortfall of more than 5bn liters a day by the mid-2050s.
The Guardian
A prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz, combined with the destruction of energy and water infrastructure, would pose a major risk to the global economy: slowing growth, persistent inflation, disruption of logistics chains, and lasting tensions in energy markets.
Financial Afrik
Water levels on the Rhine in Germany have risen after rain in the south and are forecast to rise further in the coming days.
Insurance Journal
WRDA 2026 is an incredible bipartisan achievement that will strengthen water resources infrastructure and increase access to clean and safe drinking water nationwide.
Wastewater Digest
China has developed a solar-powered desalination process that will bring potable water to arid regions of the world.
Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
Any attempt by India to deprive it of water under the Indus Waters Treaty would amount to the weaponization of water and could have serious consequences for regional peace and security.
10 Things Global News
Last updated: 02 August 2026
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