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Lake Chad Shrinks, Conflict Grows
May 26th, 2012
Via The Council on Foreign Relations, a look at increasing tension related to Lake Chad’s shrinking supply of water: Chadian men collect water with plastic canisters loaded on a hand cart in Lake Chad, on the island of Kouirom, January 27, 2007. (Stringer/Courtesy Reuters) Earlier this week, the New York Times detailed the impact […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Water Use In India
May 26th, 2012
Via The Economic Times, a report on water use in India: Reforms in water policy and pricing, sustainability in industrial water use, improvement in performance of utilities and mobilization of the private sector have the potential to address water-related challenges, a detailed report on use of water by Ernst & Young has indicated. The report […]
Read more »Mapping The Global Water Trade; Anticipating Foreign Water Dependence
May 22nd, 2012
Via the Washington Post and the Scientific American, some interesting comments and charts on the topic of water use and the trading of virtual water: The current issue of Scientific American has a bunch of great charts on which countries use the most fresh water. Not surprisingly, most of the world’s water goes toward agriculture […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Dam Plans Anger Pakistan, Symbolize Global Water Woes
May 22nd, 2012
Via the South Asian News Agency, a look at South Asia’s water worries: ITS three great basins – the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra – are the most densely populated area in the world. The Ganges alone supports half a billion people. Seventy per cent of South Asia’s 1.5 billion people live in farming […]
Read more »In An Age Of Scarcity, Can Water Bring Jobs To “Wet” Regions?
May 21st, 2012
Courtesy of Pacific Standard, an interesting look at the potential of a coming jobs exodus from China, and back to the Rust Belt and other water rich regions: Have you gotten the memo yet? You can stop worrying about peak oil: the United States is sitting on centuries of natural gas and Canada is full […]
Read more »Jordan- Arab Region Could Face Severe Water Crisis By 2015
May 21st, 2012
Via The Jordan Times, an article on the impending water crisis facing the Middle East: Arab countries are expected to face severe water scarcity as early as 2015, when the annual per capita water share in the region will fall to less than 500 cubic metres, a recent report warned. The situation of water resources […]
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