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India, Bangladesh Near Historic Agreement On Teesta Water
November 11th, 2012
Via the Hindustan Times, a report that India and Bangladesh could soon break a politically significant logjam to sign an interim Teesta water-sharing pact following talks between water resources minister Harish Rawat and visiting Bangladesh agriculture minister Begum Matia Chowdhury. As the article notes: “…An earlier attempt to resolve a deadlock over how to share […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Buys Japanese Water Rights
November 6th, 2012
Via Bloomberg, an interesting report on Chinese purchases of Japanese land & water rights: Morihiro Oguma’s phone rang every day with calls from brokers representing foreign investors who wanted to buy his Japan Mineral water-bottling business. “In many cases, I was told I could name my price,†Oguma said in an interview, adding he had […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Water shortages Potentially A Perfect Storm
November 5th, 2012
Via MarketWatch, a report on China’s water issues: Water shortages could be China’s own version of the perfect storm, potentially blowing a hole in carefully laid plans of an incoming generation of leaders. Targets for moderately fast economic development, seen as crucial for the Communist Party to maintain its grip on power, no longer seem […]
Read more »Laos’ Power Grab: Damming The Mekong
November 4th, 2012
Via The Economist, a report on Laos’ admission that work is going ahead on a controversial Mekong dam: THE Mekong river, snaking its way through the heart of South-East Asia, has long sustained the world’s biggest and most productive inland fishery, supplying protein for around 65m mainly poor people from four riparian countries, Laos, Thailand, […]
Read more »Cambodia Approves Lower Sesan 2 Mekong Dam
November 3rd, 2012
Via BBC Online, a report on Cambodia’s recent approval of a controversial hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the Mekong River: The joint venture involves Cambodian, Chinese and Vietnamese investment of $781m (£488m) and is due to be completed within five years. The project in northern Stung Treng province is known as Lower Sesan 2. […]
Read more »Water Security Conflicts: A Regional Perspective
October 31st, 2012
Via the Small Wars Journal, an interesting report on likely water security conflict areas in the years ahead: On the 1st of April 2014, the world was caught off guard when the Syrian Air Force attacked the power plant facilities at Karkamis Dam in the upstream of the Euphrates River 4.5 kilometers north of the […]
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