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Dammed If You Do; Damned If You Don’t: A Dam For The Mekong – Inevitable, or in Limbo?
December 14th, 2011
Via The New York Times, an updated look at the environment ministers from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos recent decision to await the results of further studies before making a decision on whether to proceed with construction of a dam in the Mekong River. As the article notes: As The Times reported last week, environment […]
Read more »Kashmir’s Abandoned Glaciers
December 14th, 2011
Via ChinaDialogue, a report on the impact that a recent decision to shelve a project that monitored melting Himalayan ice will have upon our ability to understand changes in Asia’s water sources. As the article notes: Funding cuts have brought a halt to one of the few on-the-ground projects monitoring receding ice in the western […]
Read more »Water: Strategic Foresight And A Warning Issue For National Security
December 8th, 2011
Via The Water Chronicles, a report on the water as a strategic warning issue for national security: The emergence of a global water crisis seems to be a fact that is reaffirmed across media almost everyday. The National Geographic, for example, has a whole section devoted to the water crisis or more precisely freshwater crisis, […]
Read more »The Age of Thirst In The American West
December 6th, 2011
Via Grist, an interesting summary of a recent book looking at the issue of water shortages in the southwestern U.S. As the article notes: Consider it a taste of the future: the fire, smoke, drought, dust, and heat that have made life unpleasant, if not dangerous, from Louisiana to Los Angeles. New records tell the […]
Read more »Meeting On The Mekong’s Fate
December 6th, 2011
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on an upcoming meeting to discuss a controversial dam on the main stream of the Mekong river in Laos. As the article notes: The Laotians call it Mae Nam Khong, the Mother of Water. The Vietnamese refer to it as Song Cuu Long, or the Nine Dragons […]
Read more »Peace Through Water? Why South Asia Needs A Kabul River Treaty
December 2nd, 2011
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting report on south Asia water tensions emanating from the Kabul River. As the article notes: Pakistan is once again accusing India of water hegemony. This time, however, the accusation refers not to Indian damming of the Western Rivers in the disputed regions of Jammu and Kashmir, but to Indian support […]
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