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Nicaragua’s El Niño Drought and Food Crisis; Colorado River Basin Water Going Fast
El Niño Triggers Drought, Food Crisis in Nicaragua. The spectre of famine is haunting Nicaragua. The second poorest country in Latin America, and one of the 10 most vulnerable to climate change in the world, is facing a meteorological phenomenon that threatens its food security.
Groundwater Disappearing Much Faster Than Lake Mead in Colorado River Basin. Satellite data show that in the last nine years, as a powerful drought held fast and river flows plummeted, the majority of the freshwater losses in the Basin—nearly 80 percent—came from water pumped out of aquifers. The decrease in groundwater reserves is a volume of water equivalent to one and a half times the amount held in a full Lake Mead, according to a study published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
