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Middle East: Water As A Security Issue & Opportunity to Drive Peace
October 15th, 2008
Via The Guardian, an interesting article (authored by a number of global political and economic leaders) detailing the opportunity to use water as one means of bringing the Israelis and Palestinians closer together. As the report notes: “…Because an impasse beckons, it is vitally important to work on those areas in which intensive negotiations have […]
Read more »Averting Asian Water Wars
October 10th, 2008
From The Japan Times, an article on averting Asian water wars by Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the privately funded Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. We recently had an earlier post on Dr. Chellaney’s thoughts but, since this piece offered some more details, decided to provide it here for completeness: “As […]
Read more »Pakistan Accuses India of “Stealing” Water
October 9th, 2008
Via The Hindu, a report of increased tension between Pakistan and India over water. As the article notes: “…Accusing India of having “stolen” its share of Chenab river water, Pakistan on Monday threatened to seek arbitration by neutral experts over it even as the two countries prepared to discuss the issue later this month. “India […]
Read more »The Inconvenient Truth About Bio-Fuels & Water
October 6th, 2008
Via The International Herald Tribune, an stark op-ed by the Chairman of Nestle detailing the impact that bio-fuel production may have upon the world’s ever-shrinking freshwater resources. “…At last, many of the world’s political leaders have begun to realize that diverting land and food crops to produce biofuels leads to higher food prices. But an […]
Read more »Ebb Without Flow: Wharton’s Look at Whether Water May Be The New Oil
October 2nd, 2008
From Wharton, a thoughtful piece on whether water the new oil and whether, just as the late 20th century saw an oil shock, the early 21st century may feature a water shock, where scarcity leads to a sharp price hike on a resource that has always been plentiful and cheap. As the article notes, tensions […]
Read more »Ethiopia & Kenya: At The Forefront of the Coming Water Crisis
October 2nd, 2008
Earlier this year (but just discovered now), the Common Language Project explored issues from Ethiopia and Kenya, two countries at the forefront of the world’s coming water crisis. And, as the article notes, the liquid that fuels bodies is becoming even more contentious than the liquid that fuels cars in East Africa: “…As you may […]
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