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Central Asia’s Water Tensions Heat Up Over Planned Hydroelectric Projects
April 10th, 2009

Via Eurasia.Net, a report that Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are preparing to jointly block Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan’s proposed hydroelectric projects.  As the article notes: “…Both downstream users of Central Asia’s main waterways, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, may use an upcoming conference on the Aral Sea to try to block hydro-power projects under consideration […]

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Central Asian Water & An Aral Proverb: “In Every Drop Of Water There Is A Grain of Gold”
April 4th, 2009

In the latest SAISPHERE 2008, John Daly details more about the most severe conundrum facing Central Asian nations: water.  As the report notes: The implosion of the U.S.S.R. in December 1991 sundered a country of 15 constituent republics into 15 new nations, which were immediately faced with the consequences of the dissolution of an economically […]

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China’s Water Politics
April 4th, 2009

Via SAISPHERE 2008, David Lampton offers an interesting examination of water politics in China.  As the article notes: “The politics of water in China provides a window on Chinese politics and society. Through this window one sees the complexity of governance in a society with 20 percent of the world’s population and how vulnerable the […]

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