https://znetwork.org/category/topic/ecology/resources/water/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:04:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/topic/ecology/resources/water/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/holding-water-to-regenerate-landscapes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/holding-water-to-regenerate-landscapes/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293389 Across arid and semi-arid regions, the same paradox is unfolding. Groundwater levels are falling, droughts are intensifying, and yet cities and rural areas alike are increasingly struck by sudden, destructive floods. From North Africa to the Middle East, from the American Southwest to Central Asia, scarcity and excess now coexist in the same territories. This [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/holding-water-to-regenerate-landscapes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-is-not-a-ceasefire-the-israeli-genocide-continues/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-is-not-a-ceasefire-the-israeli-genocide-continues/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:20:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292941 On 19 January 2025, a ceasefire took effect to halt the Israeli bombing of Palestinians in Gaza. This ceasefire emerged from a mediation process by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States, which had been sealed in June 2024 with United Nations Security Council Resolution 2735. However, the Israelis rejected the agreement and waited until Donald [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-is-not-a-ceasefire-the-israeli-genocide-continues/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hawaii-has-a-rare-opportunity-to-reclaim-land-from-the-us-military/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hawaii-has-a-rare-opportunity-to-reclaim-land-from-the-us-military/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292796 Since 1964, the U.S. military has leased roughly 47,000 acres of land from the State of Hawai‘i — for a token $1. The leases, which account for 18 percent of military lands in Hawai‘i, are set to expire in 2029, offering Hawai‘i a rare opportunity to reclaim land from the war machine. As the expiration [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hawaii-has-a-rare-opportunity-to-reclaim-land-from-the-us-military/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/managing-water-differently-algeria-facing-hydrological-extremes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/managing-water-differently-algeria-facing-hydrological-extremes/#respond Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292706 What if, in Algeria, water were no longer seen solely as a scarce resource to exploit or a threat to control, but as an ecological and economic capital to preserve and develop? Across the country, the same paradox is emerging: prolonged droughts and declining groundwater levels, punctuated by sudden, devastating floods. In a matter of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/managing-water-differently-algeria-facing-hydrological-extremes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-young-people-and-farmers-are-guardians-of-soil-health/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-young-people-and-farmers-are-guardians-of-soil-health/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:38:36 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292386 Surviving repeated threats of being buried alive, the EU’s first ever law on soil health was finally adopted last month. And while environmental groups have called out “severe shortcomings” in the final text of the Soil Monitoring Law, it is a significant step in the right direction on the journey towards healthy soils in Europe. Whether [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-young-people-and-farmers-are-guardians-of-soil-health/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-a-green-peace-restoring-the-small-water-cycles-to-save-our-sahara/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-a-green-peace-restoring-the-small-water-cycles-to-save-our-sahara/#respond Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292030 In a Maghreb growing increasingly thirsty, water is no longer just a resource: it has become a diagnostic tool for our shared vulnerabilities, a marker of regional tensions, and perhaps — if we choose it — the foundation of a new era of ecological cooperation. A Territory Weakened by Disrupted Hydrological Equilibria In southwestern Algeria, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-a-green-peace-restoring-the-small-water-cycles-to-save-our-sahara/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-we-win-stories-from-the-frontlines-of-ecological-resistance/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-we-win-stories-from-the-frontlines-of-ecological-resistance/#respond Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289938 For the first time in l00 years the Klamath River is dam free. For thousands of years the Klamath—winding 257 miles from the volcanic Cascade Range in southern Oregon to where it meets the Pacific Ocean in Northern California—provided both physical and spiritual sustenance to the Hoopa, Karuk, Klamath, Modoc, Shasta and Yurok tribes who [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-we-win-stories-from-the-frontlines-of-ecological-resistance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dont-let-him-fool-you-this-is-trumps-shutdown/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dont-let-him-fool-you-this-is-trumps-shutdown/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289433 The government shutdown is going to have big impacts on our food, water, and health, and the blame for this mess is squarely on Trump and Congressional Republicans. At the stroke of midnight on October 1, the clock ran out on Congressional efforts to pass a new spending bill for the year ahead. All but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dont-let-him-fool-you-this-is-trumps-shutdown/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/wisconsin-notches-a-win-against-big-ag-for-now/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/wisconsin-notches-a-win-against-big-ag-for-now/#respond Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:25:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288779 Appeals court rejects Big Ag’s attempt to deregulate water pollution permits. But the battle for local control continues. A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled that the state’s Department of Natural Resources has the authority to regulate large-scale animal farms, a blow to big farm groups amid their decades-long fight to scale back environmental oversight. This [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/wisconsin-notches-a-win-against-big-ag-for-now/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sonora-river-in-resistance-a-resounding-no-to-the-dams/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sonora-river-in-resistance-a-resounding-no-to-the-dams/#respond Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288500 That is what has been heard since December of last year, when the Movement in Defense of Water, Territory and Life was created, born out of a call to an academic event in the Industrial Engineering Auditorium at the University of Sonora. The diagnosis from the academics was precise: if the project of the three dams were [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sonora-river-in-resistance-a-resounding-no-to-the-dams/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-assassination-of-memory/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-assassination-of-memory/#respond Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287796 As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another – the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armored bulldozers are tearing down hundreds of heavily damaged buildings. Cement trucks are churning out concrete to fill tunnels. Israeli tanks and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-assassination-of-memory/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-it-comes-to-clean-water-trump-is-betraying-maha/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-it-comes-to-clean-water-trump-is-betraying-maha/#respond Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:44:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287675 One week after his presidential victory in 2024, Donald Trump promised that the United States would soon have “the cleanest air and water on the planet.” In the very same sentence, he vowed to deregulate the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and “unleash the power of American business.” To critical observers, it was always obvious which of these [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-it-comes-to-clean-water-trump-is-betraying-maha/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-water-becomes-war-the-moral-failure-of-global-governance-in-the-middle-east/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-water-becomes-war-the-moral-failure-of-global-governance-in-the-middle-east/#respond Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:35:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287549 The Middle East today is witnessing a transformation that goes far beyond conventional geopolitics or the competition for oil. One of the most urgent yet underexplored dimensions of its crisis is the question of water, which has increasingly become both a scarce commodity and a weapon in the hands of states and non-state actors alike. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-water-becomes-war-the-moral-failure-of-global-governance-in-the-middle-east/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/data-centers-consume-massive-amounts-of-water-companies-rarely-tell-the-public-exactly-how-much/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/data-centers-consume-massive-amounts-of-water-companies-rarely-tell-the-public-exactly-how-much/#respond Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:18:36 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287567 As demand for artificial intelligence technology boosts construction and proposed construction of data centers around the world, those computers require not just electricity and land, but also a significant amount of water. Data centers use water directly, with cooling water pumped through pipes in and around the computer equipment. They also use water indirectly, through [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/data-centers-consume-massive-amounts-of-water-companies-rarely-tell-the-public-exactly-how-much/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rebuilding-our-autonomy-from-forced-imitation-to-sovereign-creation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rebuilding-our-autonomy-from-forced-imitation-to-sovereign-creation/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:37:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287240 The power lines of the world are shifting at unprecedented speed. Geopolitical tensions, resource scarcity, and ecological urgency are exposing the fragility of systems built on borrowing and dependency. For many societies shaped by colonization, a reflex has taken root: import the tools, the concepts, the models — wait for the solution to come from [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rebuilding-our-autonomy-from-forced-imitation-to-sovereign-creation/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-gaza-war-is-one-of-historys-worst-crimes-ever/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-gaza-war-is-one-of-historys-worst-crimes-ever/#respond Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:40:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287015 To try and understand how bad things are in Gaza, you have to think about all the people you grew up with and came to know: your mom and dad and siblings, but also your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins; the friends you knew since you were kids, and the friends of friends you knew for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-gaza-war-is-one-of-historys-worst-crimes-ever/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-how-energy-hungry-algorithms-are-fueling-the-climate-crisis/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-how-energy-hungry-algorithms-are-fueling-the-climate-crisis/#respond Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286711 Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of modern society, revolutionizing industries, enhancing daily life, and driving economic growth. From virtual assistants to advanced data analytics, AI applications are diverse and continue to expand rapidly. However, this rapid growth comes with significant environmental implications, particularly concerning energy consumption and carbon emissions. As AI technologies [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-how-energy-hungry-algorithms-are-fueling-the-climate-crisis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-minister-gaza-must-be-in-ruins-for-decades-as-airstrike-kills-children-seeking-water/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-minister-gaza-must-be-in-ruins-for-decades-as-airstrike-kills-children-seeking-water/#respond Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:32:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286266 In an interview with Israel’s Channel 14, Minister of Energy Eli Cohen said that “Gaza must remain in ruins for decades to come” and that Israel will not help rebuild its civilian infrastructure. The Israeli army has damaged or destroyed some 90% of the Gaza Strip’s housing stock, as well as destroying most hospitals and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-minister-gaza-must-be-in-ruins-for-decades-as-airstrike-kills-children-seeking-water/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/agtech-for-agroecology/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/agtech-for-agroecology/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:00:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285686 I was invited to contribute to the Advanced Lecture Series
 at Tongji University, in Shanghai. These high-level, cross-disciplinary lectures are organized by the Graduate School. I thank them for this opportunity. I am also grateful to Professor Francesca Valsecchi for supporting me in this challenging commission. The following transcript accompanies the YouTube recording. Takeaways Sustainability [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/agtech-for-agroecology/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-most-gazans-staying-hungry-is-safer-than-risking-life-to-get-aid/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-most-gazans-staying-hungry-is-safer-than-risking-life-to-get-aid/#respond Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:15:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285447 After more than 100 days of complete Israeli ban on the entry of aid and goods into the Gaza Strip, Gaza residents are left with no choice except risking their life to get some food for their hungry children from the American-Israeli aid distribution centres located in a few points in the southern parts of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-most-gazans-staying-hungry-is-safer-than-risking-life-to-get-aid/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/settlers-weaponize-water-against-west-bank-palestinians/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/settlers-weaponize-water-against-west-bank-palestinians/#respond Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:46:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284860 The Palestinian town of Bruqin, just off Route 446 in the northern West Bank, was founded in the Roman era as a rest stop for passing traders and their camels. Today, this community of fewer than 5,000 residents has – like much of the West Bank – become a site of competition: a case study [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/settlers-weaponize-water-against-west-bank-palestinians/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gila-river-tribes-intend-to-float-solar-panels-on-a-reservoir-could-the-technology-help-the-colorado-river/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gila-river-tribes-intend-to-float-solar-panels-on-a-reservoir-could-the-technology-help-the-colorado-river/#respond Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284821 About 33 miles south of Phoenix, Interstate 10 bisects a line of solar panels traversing the desert like an iridescent snake. The solar farm’s shape follows the path of a canal, with panels serving as awnings to shade the gently flowing water from the unforgiving heat and wind of the Sonoran Desert. The panels began [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gila-river-tribes-intend-to-float-solar-panels-on-a-reservoir-could-the-technology-help-the-colorado-river/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-fully-integrating-its-gaza-food-aid-hubs-into-the-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-fully-integrating-its-gaza-food-aid-hubs-into-the-genocide/#respond Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:58:10 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284575 It is entirely unsurprising that Israel has yet again been caught out in a lie – a lie that the BBC once again spread far and wide on its news services. Israel claimed that it had not fired at starving Palestinians queueing on Sunday morning to get food from one of its highly militarised “aid [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-fully-integrating-its-gaza-food-aid-hubs-into-the-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/militarization-another-drain-on-the-rio-grande/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/militarization-another-drain-on-the-rio-grande/#respond Fri, 30 May 2025 17:03:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284398 A persistent hum echoes on the banks of the Río Grande, under the Guadalupe-Tornillo International Bridge. It’s the heavy hauling engines of cargo trucks crossing from Mexico into Texas. Straining your ear, you might still make out the crickets’ song. In the distance, a single turtle dove coos. “Over there, you can still see water,” [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/militarization-another-drain-on-the-rio-grande/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/shes-sowing-the-seeds-of-her-fathers-legacy-by-teaching-her-community-to-farm/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/shes-sowing-the-seeds-of-her-fathers-legacy-by-teaching-her-community-to-farm/#respond Wed, 21 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284042 Growing up in Charles County, Maryland, Mel Thomas’ father sparked her interest in agriculture as he grew plants and food for the family.  “My dad and I, we would have a garden every year. I was an outdoor kid. I just wanted to be out there all the time. He taught me about growing,” she [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/shes-sowing-the-seeds-of-her-fathers-legacy-by-teaching-her-community-to-farm/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-food-water-or-medical-supplies-gaza-siege-reaches-60th-day-as-us-defends-israel-at-icj/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-food-water-or-medical-supplies-gaza-siege-reaches-60th-day-as-us-defends-israel-at-icj/#respond Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:25:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283180 Israel’s total blockade of Gaza has reached its 60th day, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague holds the third day of hearings on Israel’s humanitarian obligations to Palestinians. No food, water or medical supplies have been allowed into the war-torn Gaza Strip since March 2, days before Israel broke the ceasefire on March [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-food-water-or-medical-supplies-gaza-siege-reaches-60th-day-as-us-defends-israel-at-icj/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kashmir-and-the-indus-river/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kashmir-and-the-indus-river/#respond Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:23:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283181 India’s Hindutva President, Narendra Modi, has used the Kashmir terrorism incident to abrogate the 1960s Indus Waters Treaty – a longstanding goal of Modi. The Indian version of the “terrorist attack”, most of whose victims were Muslim, has largely been accepted by Western governments without evidence. False flags abound nowadays. You may recall that we [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kashmir-and-the-indus-river/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-the-tigris-and-euphrates-to-the-nile-the-middle-easts-unresolved-water-disputes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-the-tigris-and-euphrates-to-the-nile-the-middle-easts-unresolved-water-disputes/#respond Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:17:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280129 The West Asia and North Africa region is facing a water scarcity crisis. About 60 percent of the region’s population lives in areas of severe water stress. According to recent reports, the International Water Management Institute has warned that climate change in the region will cause more water stress in the coming years.  In an attempt to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-the-tigris-and-euphrates-to-the-nile-the-middle-easts-unresolved-water-disputes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/time-is-water-a-cross-border-indigenous-alliance-works-to-save-the-amazon/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/time-is-water-a-cross-border-indigenous-alliance-works-to-save-the-amazon/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:58:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277169 YURIMAGUAS, Alto Amazonas, Peru — Our boat sets sail early in the morning. The plan is to travel down the Huallaga River, reach the Marañón, then sail north along the Santiago River towards the border with Ecuador. But after a precarious start in shallow waters, one of the boat’s engines is broken by a powerful [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/time-is-water-a-cross-border-indigenous-alliance-works-to-save-the-amazon/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/force-for-good/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/force-for-good/#respond Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:04:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274788 Five years ago today my family took a weekend road trip to Madison, Wisconsin for my niece’s wedding. Well, we didn’t get to attend the actual wedding (a small modern affair), but we enjoyed the reception and some time to catch up with my relatives. The next day, we toured the capitol building with my [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/force-for-good/feed/ 0