News from IFGR and the rivers

Scientists have emphasised the impacts of climate change on the water cycle for decades. The latest IPCC report, published on 9 August, is even more precise about the extreme events that will result from them, in the dedicated chapter 11. Climate change takes the form of stronger summer heatwaves and more frequent tropical nights at […]

In July 2020, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, announced an investment of $761 million to maintain and renovate the country’s ageing public hydraulic infrastructures. This announcement signalled the start of a huge plan scheduled over three years, the Three Waters Reform Programme, which involves local authority services responsible for drinking water, wastewater and […]

In its newsletter last June, IFGR mentioned the possibility that the western States of America would resort to cutting off water supplies as early as the end of 2022 due to a mega-drought hitting the Colorado River. Since then, the situation has worsened rapidly: Lake Powell, the USA’s second largest reservoir, has reached its lowest […]

The last IPCC report  (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), published on 9 August 2021, had a major impact since for the first time it “unequivocally” emphasised the role played by human activities in global warming A 1.5 °C rise in temperature is probable by 2030   Another observation also demands our attention: the emergency of […]

  Climate change manifested itself in a particularly alarming way in the form of drought in the summer of this year, aggravating already scarce water resources in Central Asia. If plans to adapt to climate change are not implemented rapidly in the region, the ecological crisis, which is simultaneously economic, social and political, could have […]

Overexploited downstream on the Chinese side, the discharge of the river Ili is no longer sufficient to ensure the level of Lake Balkash. Overexploitation of the water of the river Ili accused   Lake Balkash, located in southeast Kazakhstan, stretches for more than 600 kilometres from east to west. It is the world’s 15th largest […]