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The Dam and the Damned: Gibe III Ethiopia
March 21st, 2012
Via Nazret.com, a passionate look at the Gibe III dam project and its potential impact: Three years ago to the week, I wrote a weekly commentary entitled, “Cry Me a Lake: Crime Against Natureâ€. That commentary focused on the plight of tens of thousands of Ethiopians who are sick and dying from drinking the polluted […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: The Shrinking Depths Below
March 19th, 2012
Via China Dialogue, a report on the threats to underground water supplies in China’s arid north: Water stress in northern China is driving some of the biggest engineering projects in human history: pipelines to transfer billions of cubic metres of water from south to north, desalination plants to supply the east coast, proposals to pump […]
Read more »Water “Apartheid” In The West Bank?
March 19th, 2012
From Australia’s World News, a look at whether water is being used as a weapon in the West Bank: In the Middle East, water is more than just a precious commodity — it’s a serious sticking point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After a French politician denounced Israel’s policy as “water apartheid,” a deeper look into […]
Read more »Asian Water Cooperation
March 16th, 2012
Via China Daily, a report on a new ministerial-level cooperative mechanism between China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea aimed at tackling water problems. As the article notes: “…The three countries signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on the Mechanism of Ministerial Meeting at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseilles, France, to deepen the coordination […]
Read more »The Water Sector In China
March 16th, 2012
Courtesy of EarthPM, a look at water crisis in China: We’d like to start you off here with some statistics about China. And H2O. China accounts for 30% of the world’s population but has only 7% of the world’s freshwater supply. Since 2008, China has added more than 50 million people. Stop for a moment […]
Read more »Are We Running Out of Water?
March 16th, 2012
Courtesy of National Geographic, a look at the question of whether the world is running out of water: A dry river near Darcha in India. Ankit Solanki, Flickr Creative Commons Early in 2001, the Rio Grande River failed to reach the Gulf of Mexico for the first time. With that nefarious event the Rio Grande […]
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