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Why India and Pakistan Are Squaring Off Over Their Rivers
April 17th, 2012
Courtesy of Time, a look at the water tensions between India and Pakistan: India’s Wular Lake, a popular picnic and tourist spot nestled in the Kashmir Valley, is an unlikely site for conflict. But India’s plan to build a structure on the Jhelum River at the mouth of the lake that will allow it to […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Water Waste Could Hurt Growth
April 17th, 2012
Via The Wall Street Journal, an article on potential impact of water waste on India’s growth: Indian policymakers warned that the country’s water problems could hamper economic growth unless consumption is regulated. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that managing the country’s water resources “in a rational and sustainable manner†is one of the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Coming Water Crisis Threatens Growth And Stability
April 15th, 2012
Courtesy of The China Economic Review, a look at how China’s coming water crisis threatens growth and stability. As the article notes: “…The Yarlung Tsampo River has hurtled down from the Himalayas for millennia, cleaving the mountain range in two and creating one of the world’s steepest and longest canyons. The river forms a huge […]
Read more »Egypt: Losing Its Grip On The Nile
April 15th, 2012
Via The Global Post, an article on how political uncertainty in post-revolution Egypt is allowing other Nile states to wrest control of the world’s longest river. As the report notes: Amid the barren, earth-dug canals and emaciated livestock that stalk the dirt roads of Ethiopia’s northern highlands, Teshale, a 25-year-old farmer, waits idly for the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Inside China’s Water Industrial Complex
April 15th, 2012
Via The China Economic Review, a report on China’s water industrial complex: Few countries would be capable of projects such as the Three Gorges Dam or North-South Water Diversion. Others would not consider them. In the US, more large dams are now being decommissioned than being built, often for environmental reasons. Yet China is already […]
Read more »What Happens When All The Wells Run Dry?
April 15th, 2012
Via Australia’s The National, a reprint of Thomas Friedman’s comments on the impact of environmental pressures on recent political uprisings: The Arab awakening was driven not only by political and economic stresses, but, less visibly, by environmental, population and climate stresses. ISN’T it interesting that the Arab awakening began in Tunisia with a fruit vendor […]
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