![]() ![]() Iraq, one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change according to the United Nations, continues to see its riparian habitat battered - this past week, thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores of the Amshan River, which draws its waters from the Tigris, Al Jazeera reports. Percent flow of the Tigris River, one of ancient Mesopotamia’s “two great rivers,” compared to its 100-year average. Though with the return of El Niño, a lack of precipitation in the Midwest is particularly “weird.” This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers The lack of rain has not yet been attributed to climate change, climatologists say. Wheat, soybean, and corn crops are browning, unsustained. Soil is losing moisture, impacting both present and future yields. Farmers have been forced to buy more feed for their livestock, rather than rely on grazing. In agricultural counties, especially in states such as Kansas and Nebraska, the lack of rain has had significant effects. Midwest - including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin - has experienced moderate drought this spring 93 percent of the region is “abnormally dry,” with 16 percent experiencing “severe drought,” Stateline reports. Failing Rains in Darfur Foster Conflict and Displacement - Graphic Journalism.Will Michigan’s Largest Water Provider Target Tiny City For Next Shutoffs? - Residents of Highland Park face $24 million in delinquent water bills.Christian Thorsberg, Interim Stream Editor Recent WaterNews from Circle of Blue The study found that while “those participants actually do seek new homes with substantially lower flood exposure,” the racial makeup of the floodplain neighborhoods left behind, and the areas those homeowners are moving to, are homogenizing. Grist reports on a new study that analyzed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood buyout program, which has spent billions of dollars over the past three decades to purchase and tear down flood-prone properties. We need to engage communities more proactively and think about not only when they retreat, but how they retreat.” - Jim Elliott, professor at Rice University and lead author of the study. “The policy lesson is really that it’s not just the environmental risk and the way the policy works that’s intervening to affect how it plays out for homeowners.
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