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Water
Water as a ZNet topic refers to content assessing current water trends and to strategy and vision bearing on water availability, quality, and production in the future.
The defining signature of the past 6,000 years of human civilization is the domestication of the hydrosphereācapturing, damming, canalizing, reorienting, propertizing, privatizing,…
The March 30 announcement arrived with the bluntness that has become a hallmark of the Trump administrationās environmental retreat: The U.S. Army…
Forgotten Water: How Cities Desertify Their Own Territories In modern cities, a silent paradox repeats itself: in countries affected by drought, rainwater…
Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), water is far more than a resource. It is memory, territory, survival, identity, and…
Since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the U.S. government has sought to foment regime change in Cuba. In 1961, the C.I.A. orchestrated the…
In September 2024, intermittent rainfall plunged northern Algerian Sahara into an almost apocalyptic atmosphere. In just forty-eight hours, more rain fell than…
Majdi Aslan, 54, was driving a truck for the UNās World Health Organization (WHO) on April 6 when the Israeli army killed…
Amjad Ashour, 50, stands in the nutrition department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, holding his four-month-old infant as doctors warn him…
Microplastics, plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters, can be found in land, air, and water, and have infiltrated our food chain, resulting…
Introduction Iran’s water crisis has moved beyond the warning stage to become a structural reality. Tehran, a metropolis of 15 million people,…
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