Shrinking reservoirs in Morocco, India, Iraq and Spain could spark the next “day zero” water crisis, according to the developers of a satellite early warning system for the world’s 500,000 dams. Despite recent rains, the WRI said water was now at the lowest level in a decade. As in Syria and increasingly also Iraq, water stress has added to conflict and been a driver for relocations of people from the countryside. Tensions have also been apparent in India over the water allocations for two reservoirs connected by the Narmada river. All four dams are in the mid-latitudes, the geographic bands on either side of the tropics where climate change is expected to make droughts more frequent and protracted.

Source: The Guardian April 11, 2018 12:00 UTC