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Water Tension In South Asia
May 19th, 2011
Via The Eurasia Review, an interesting article on the factors driving water disputes in South Asia and the need to include China in any solution. As the report notes: “…South Asia is mired in disputes over water resources despite possessing three large rivers – the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Indus and their tributaries. The disputes emanate […]
Read more »South Sudan And The Hydro-Politics Of The Nile Basin
May 7th, 2011
Via Water International, a detailed look at issues related to the sharing and management of the waters of the Nile River, the conservation and use of the waters of the huge swamps of southern Sudan, and the relationship with the other Nile riparians faced by the new state of South Sudan faces in connection: On […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Beijing’s Water Crisis
May 5th, 2011
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a detailed report on how Beijing’s water demand is outpacing supply despite conservation, recycling, and imports: The 200-kilometer drive from Beijing to the Guanting Reservoir in Hebei Province takes you from the urban jungle of China’s capital to the dry farm fields and tumble-down villages of one of the country’s […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: How China Is Dealing With Its Water Crisis
May 5th, 2011
Courtesy of Columbia’s Earth Institute, an interesting look at China’s efforts to face its increasingly perilous water crisis: “…China becomes drier each year—its freshwater reserves declined 13% between 2000 and 2009. Severe droughts occurred in 2000, 2007 and 2009. Normally the southern regions receive 80% of China’s rainfall and snowmelt, about 79 inches a year, […]
Read more »Ethiopia Freezes Nile Water Treaty in Sign of Thaw With Egypt
May 4th, 2011
Via Voice of America, an update on the Nile River treaty process: Ethiopia has agreed to postpone ratification of a treaty on sharing Nile River water until a new Egyptian government takes office to join the negotiations. The delay eases a long-running dispute between upstream countries at the source of the Nile and downstream countries […]
Read more »The Aral Sea
April 27th, 2011
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an updated look at the tragedy of the Aral Sea: Aral Sea Satellite Outline in 2009, Showing the Original Shoreline of 1960. Courtesy of NASA “…The Aral Sea, shared by Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south, is a sad story of one of the most devastating ecological disasters […]
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