Moldova’s pro-European leaders said that they were asking parliament to declare a state of emergency for energy and water supply in connection with dangerously low levels on the Dniester River ‌it shares with Ukraine. President Maia Sandu, who has spearheaded a drive for Moldova to ‌join the ⁠European Union by 2030, had earlier chaired the Security Council meeting and said its members had recommended introducing emergency regulations quickly. “The share of renewable energy so

The unprecedented shutdown of five of Israel’s six desalination plants has exposed what water-policy and national-security experts say is a growing strategic vulnerability: the country’s near-total dependence on large coastal facilities for drinking water. Large-scale desalination facilities already supply around 80 percent of Israel’s municipal drinking water, a share set to rise sharply under government plans to expand production in the coming decades. “Desalination is supp