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Russia is thought to have massed 80,000 troops along Ukraine's eastern border Clashes broke out in recent weeks, undermining a ceasefire brokered last year Ukraine's country's President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting area near Mariupol Zelensky said a Russian invasion is a real possibility that Ukraine is bracing............

BEVERLY HILLS (CBSLA.com) — California’s ongoing drought is forcing Governor Jerry Brown to start a so-called “water war” between the north and the south. The governor revealed Wednesday he’s prepared to move water from Southern California to drier areas of the state as conditions worsen. Speaking exclusively to KCAL9 political reporter Dave Bryan outside an engagement in Beverly Hills, Brown said it could be necessary to implement drastic measures to alleviate communities at risk of running out of water.

The word arid has two meanings: insufficient rainfall to grow trees or dull and boring. The second meaning seems to characterize the level of intelligence that’s on display in the recent media water war that has broken out between the major newspapers in Los Angeles and Phoenix. This e-water war was provoked by William deBuys’ op-ed article in the March 14 Los Angeles Times, “Phoenix’s Too Hot Future.” The Phoenix-based Arizona Republic newspaper retorted on March 15 with an editorial, “Los Angeles More of a Water Vacuum than Phoenix.” DeBuys is the author of the book: “A Great Aridness: Climate...

The showdown between the federal government and the historic town of Tombstone is headed to court.  Using the 10th Amendment as a defense for the residents of Tombstone, the Goldwater Institute will be pushing back against the United States Forest Service (USFS), which is preventing the repair of crucial water lines to the town. More from Goldwater: The City of Tombstone is squaring off against the U.S. Forest Service over water rights in a fight to rescue “The Town Too Tough to Die.” Citing the Wilderness Act, the Forest Service is refusing to allow the city to repair its waterlines...

China will ramp up construction of dams, reservoirs and wells in response to a severe drought in the country’s south-west, but the move is likely to raise tensions with downstream countries, which have already blamed reduced river flows on Beijing. Most of south-west China has been affected by the drought, which began in November and has left more than 24m people without adequate access to drinking water. Downstream in Thailand, cargo boats have been stranded along the banks of the Mekong, which is at its lowest level in half a century, while fishermen complain of empty nets. Beijing has launched...

A group of Democratic lawmakers on Thursday asked Senator Dianne Feinstein to abandon draft legislation that would divert more water to California's farmers, a plan that has quickly become a flashpoint in the state's long-running water wars. Feinstein's proposal, which would ease Endangered Species Act restrictions, has angered environmental activists and fishing groups. The powerful Democratic senator's rebuke by members of her own party underlines the incendiary nature of water politics in the No. 1 U.S. farm state. The 12 lawmakers, who sent a letter to Feinstein asking her to drop the plan, say it could ultimately lead to the...

As people from 130 nations meet in Mexico City to debate ways to bring clean water to people who are poor, there were skirmishes between protesters and police. Groups of young demonstrators threw rocks and smashed a patrol car and a motorcycle in clashes that continued into Friday morning. Protesters march "in defence of water" near the site of the fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City on Thursday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) The government news agency Notimex reported that some people were found carrying homemade gasoline bombs, the Associated Press said. On Thursday, police stopped thousands of demonstrators marching toward...

Water War With Mexico 07-May-2002 Rio Grande Julie Watson writes in AP Latin America that this year, in fields in the drought-stricken Mexican state of Chihuahua, Mexican farmers are threatening a bitter fight for Rio Grande water that could affect relations between the United States and Mexico. U.S. officials say that under a 1944 treaty, Mexico owes Texas farmers 1.5 million acre-feet of water. Each acre-foot is enough to cover one acre of land with one foot of water, an amount equivalent to 326,000 gallons. The treaty gives Mexico a larger quantity of water, but via the Colorado River far...

Texas-Mexico water war boils over Dispute raised during Bush trip — and on World Water Day A water war between Texas and Mexico has Texans boiling mad, and they’re hoping their former governor, President Bush, can do something about it during his talks this week with Mexican President Vicente Fox. The water dispute is just one of many around the globe — a worrisome trend highlighted by U.N. statements and a report issued Friday, which the United Nations has designated World Water Day.THE U.S. BORDER dispute stems from a 1944 water treaty in which Mexico agreed to allow 350,000 acre-feet...