The Euphrates Dam in Syria, the country's largest reservoir, has reached a water level not observed since 1988 It is currently filled to 97% of its capacity after receiving 3 billion cubic meters of water in recent weeks due to an unusually strong rainy season in Syria and Turkey.

France 🇫🇷 was pissed off at Spain 🇪🇸 and the stupid Habsburgs, so it took matters into its own hands and made its own Gibraltar. The Canal du Midi, built in the 1660s–1680s, pushed the frontier of civil engineering—locks, aqueducts, and, crucially, a complex water-supply system (reservoirs like Saint-Ferréol) to keep a summit canal fed. Economically, it never quite justified its cost. Tolls were high, traffic seasonal, and by the 19th century railways undercut it decisively. The canal solved a strategic problem that did not translate into sustained commercial dominance. But as statecraft, it is hard to dispute. The same administrative machine that built fortresses and armies also built infrastructure at continental scale—planning, financing, and executing across decades. The Canal du Midi is less a profit story than a demonstration of French capacity to reshape geography to serve policy.

The Dashixia Water Project in Xinjiang features the world’s tallest concrete-faced sand-gravel dam, rising 247 meters, equivalent to an 80-story building. Once completed, it will ease southern Xinjiang’s water shortages.

Los hombres tenemos esa habilidad de ponernos estas cosas, que después terminan en un maremoto en otro continente. Pero nadie nos quita la felicidad. Lo que no se es porque el agua estaba de ese color 🫠