The Panama Canal's water problem and what it means for trade
Each Panama Canal transit flushes roughly 200 million litres of fresh water into the sea, so drought forces the authority to ration…
Liam Chen
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#Drought
Stories tagged “Drought”.
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Why water companies lose a fifth of supply before it reaches a tap
Leakage persists because finding buried leaks is genuinely hard and fixing the last ones costs more than the water saves, a threshold the…
Amelia Hart
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Why Britain's rivers run low in summer: the abstraction problem
Abstraction licences issued from 1963 onwards let water companies pump from rivers and chalk aquifers with little ecological scrutiny, and…
Elena Marsh
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Water Scarcity Explained
Water scarcity is when demand for fresh water outstrips the available, reliable supply. Here is what causes it, the impacts on people and…
Elena Marsh
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