Water management

Water scarcity is often the result of unequal power relations rather than a natural phenomenon. Post-growth can help ensure more equal access.

A cross-border investigation explores groundwater depletion in Romania, Italy, and Germany, three of the EU’s hardest-hit countries.

During communism, irrigation systems made the Romanian Plain agriculturally robust, but have since collapsed. Droughts are the new reality.

Water wars are not inevitable but the result of bad management.