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The Parched Tiger: Hobbled on Energy, India Ponders a Multitude of Dams
January 9th, 2013
Via The New York Times, an article on India’s growing water stress and its plans to construct a large number of dams to help address its watergy constraint: As we noted here last week, over 600 million people lost power in India last summer, setting a modern record for the number of people affected by […]
Read more »U.S. Water Wars: Supreme Court To Decide On Texans’ Bid For Oklahoma’s Water
January 9th, 2013
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at Texas’ bid for more water from neighboring Oklahoma: A reservoir in southeastern Oklahoma in the Kiamichi River basin. Oklahoma officials have blocked the Tarrant County Water Authority in northern Texas from exporting water from the Kiamichi basin; the Texas claims on that water will now be […]
Read more »U.S. Water Politics: Conservation Vs. Infrastructure
January 4th, 2013
Via Chance of Rain, an interesting look at politics surrounding the conservation vs. infrastructure movement in the United States: WHAT western water managers preach and what western water managers do is often contradictory. This much can be relied on: inconsistency starts at the top. Only this month a long-awaited report issued by the federal Bureau […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Aims To Have Mastery of Asia’s Water Tap by 2020
January 3rd, 2013
Via The Huffington Post, an interesting report on China’s thirst for Asian water in the years ahead: China has a damming programme for six of the world’s great rivers that rise in Tibet – the Indus, Sutlej, Mekong, Brahmaputra, Salween and Yangste – and feed by irrigation an estimated 1.3 billion people. The Mekong whose […]
Read more »The Brahmaputra: Water Hotspot In Himalayan Asia
January 3rd, 2013
Via the Global Water Forum, an interesting article on the Brahmaputra: Analysts around the world increasingly have their eyes on the Brahmaputra River, a transboundary watercourse with headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau of the Himalayan mountain range. The three riparian states sharing the Brahmaputra – China, India, and Bangladesh – are the world’s first, second, […]
Read more »Egyptian Mega Projects on the Nile: Repercussions and Implications to Ethiopia
January 3rd, 2013
Via The Ethiopia Times, an interesting article on potential implications of Ethiopian projects on the Nile: Recently I came across one commentary by an Egyptian management consultant by the name Ms. Rania Al-Maghraby (PM World Journal, Vol. I, Issue III-October 2012). With a candid English and pleasant conceptual flow, she mentioned some of the Mega […]
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