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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 […]
Read more »Dam(n) It: The World’s Most Contentious Dam Projects
March 16th, 2012
Via The Guardian, a look at some of the world’s most contentious dam projects: South-east Asia’s Mekong dam Laos hopes to built a 1,285 megawatt hydroelectric plant at Xayaburi that would supply Thailand with electricity and open the door to a host of other proposed dams on the Mekong. But until now its plans have […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Jiangxi Province Lobbies Hard for Damming of China’s Largest Freshwater Lake
March 16th, 2012
Courtesy of Xinhuanet.com, an article on Jiangxi Province’s efforts to develop a new water project on China’s largest freshwater lake: Officials from east China’s Jiangxi have been pushing for support of a water project at the mouth of China’s largest freshwater lake Poyang, but the potential impact of the project is still strongly disputed. On […]
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