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‘Eating’ Water: A Rising Threat to a Thirsty Population
August 27th, 2012
Via Global Geopolitics, an interesting look at the use of water to grow food: Paradoxically, the water we “eat” is likely to become one of the growing new dangers to millions of the world’s thirsty, hungering for this finite natural resource.”More than one-fourth of all the water we use worldwide is taken to grow over […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Another Look At China’s North-South Transfer Project
August 27th, 2012
Courtesy of China Dialogue, some commentary on China’s North-South water transfer project: Tom Levitt: What do you mean by our water footprint?   Ruth Matthews: A water footprint generally breaks down into three components. The green water footprint is the water that is used by plants from rainfall that has not run-off the soil and […]
Read more »Yemen: A Country Run Dry
August 27th, 2012
Via The Guardian, an article on Yemen’s intensifying water crisis: Despite plans to focus on rainwater harvesting and on water drilling, Yemen’s political uncertainty has pushed sanitation and water access down the list of priorities. Under a staircase, clinging to a wall of Sana’a’s Grand Mosque, groups of women and children lug plastic canisters to […]
Read more »A New Course For The Brahmaputra
August 20th, 2012
Courtesy of ThirdPole.net, commentary on how policymakers must put the needs of people and ecosystems before national strategic goals in order to rethink development along the Brahmaputra River: In discussions about managing international rivers, it is generally assumed that countries sharing a river can and should work cooperatively for hydropower and, by extension, economic development. […]
Read more »Harnessing South Asia’s Rivers
August 20th, 2012
Via Third Pole.net, an interesting look at how government negotiations have failed to improve water cooperation in South Asia, but a new regulatory body that encompasses the entire Himalayan watershed may offer a way forward: Historic power outages in India this month deprived 670 million people of electricity, more than any previous global outage. These […]
Read more »Oil and Water Don’t Mix in Lake Malawi Border Dispute
August 20th, 2012
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a brief commentary on the Lake Malawi border dispute where, in the search for oil & natural gas, Africa’s third largest lake has become a political battlefield: Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa, is one of the African Great Lakes that lies in the Eastern Rift Valley. It is […]
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