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Central Asia: A Dam Debacle
March 2nd, 2012
Courtesy of China Dialogue, a insightful look at Central Asia’s water predicament where grand engineering schemes have failed to address the political problems of water management and, as climate change dries up the rivers, regional tensions will likely escalate. As the article notes: The Toktogul Dam in Kyrgyzstan is an imposing structure. The dam guards […]
Read more »Global Water Resources Pushed to the Brink
March 1st, 2012
Via The Environmental Leader, a report on how a global population of seven billion people will push water resources to the brink, unless agriculture and industry act fast to cut demand: Water use could reach 8,680,000,000,000 cubic meters this year. A study warned in 2009 that global water requirements would grow to 6,900 billion m3 by […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India Supreme Court Again Pushes National River Linking Project to Proceed (2)
March 1st, 2012
Via Circle of Blue, another look at the recent Indian high court ruling that is the second time the court has promoted the mega-project that would link the major rivers in the north with those in the south as a way to better manage water, moving it from areas of perceived surplus to areas without […]
Read more »Central Asia: Water Scarcity Likely Within Two Decades
February 28th, 2012
Via New Europe, an article on the impending water stress likely to be realized in Central Asia in the years ahead: The water of the Caspian Sea shore some 50 kilometres north of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku. | |EPA/ZURAB KURTSIKIDZE Rivers crossing the territories of several countries must become a source of peace rather than discord, […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Supreme Court Orders River Links Project To Proceed
February 28th, 2012
Via the BBC, a look at a recent court decision to drive India to implement an ambitious project to link major rivers in the region “in a time-bound manner”: India’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to implement an ambitious project to link major rivers in the region “in a time-bound manner”. The court also […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India May Spend $1 Billion to Map Aquifers, Avert Water Crisis
February 22nd, 2012
Via Bloomberg, a report that India may spend significant funds on a plan to map underground aquifers as it tackles its water crisis. As the article notes: India may spend as much as 50 billion rupees ($1 billion) in the next five years to map underground water as indiscriminate sinking of wells by farmers depletes […]
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