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The New Oil: A Race To Buy The World’s Water?
October 16th, 2010
Via Newsweek, a report on the race to “buy up the world’s water”. While the author may not agree fully with all their points, the article does bring home the issue of privatization and the likelihood that private ventures/initiatives will likely give rise to increased water tensions & politics in the years ahead. As the […]
Read more »Egypt Boosts Investment & Cooperation In Ethiopia To Help Release Water Tension
October 15th, 2010
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report that Egypt’s increased investments in Ethiopia may help defuse rising tensions over Nile water allocations. As the article notes: “…Egypt’s increased investments in Ethiopia this year will help boost cooperation between the two Nile Basin states, Egyptian Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mohamed Nasreddin Allam said, the […]
Read more »The (In)Fertile Crescent?
October 14th, 2010
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on the increasingly dire situation facing Syria and Iraq due to shortages on the Euphrates. As the article notes: “…The farmlands spreading north and east of this Euphrates River town were once the breadbasket of the region, a vast expanse of golden wheat fields and bucolic sheep […]
Read more »Asia’s Water Crisis Threatens Region’s Rise
October 12th, 2010
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how decreasing water supplies may start to threaten Asia’s economic development. As the article notes: “…Framed by banana and eucalyptus trees, the caramel-colored Mekong River rolls through this lush corner of Yunnan Province in southwestern China with an unerring rhythm that is reassuring in its seeming […]
Read more »Melting Glaciers = Rising Tensions: Peruvians Fight for Their Right to Water
October 10th, 2010
Courtesy of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, a report on recent violence which erupted in Peru over water. As the article notes: A Peruvian man sits in front a lake fed by melt from the Andean glaciers, seen in the background. (Source: Wikimedia, September 2008) Last week, on September 17, one man was killed and 18 […]
Read more »A Perfect Drought…
October 10th, 2010
Courtesy of Terra Daily, a report on the likelihood of unprecedented drought in the U.S. Southwest and the concerns that the severe decline in Lake Mead and resulting reductions in Colorado River allocations could pit states against one another. As the article notes: “…The convergence in the coming year of three cyclical conditions affecting ocean […]
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