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Yemen: Water Is Worth Fighting Over
May 9th, 2013
Courtesy of The New York Times, an Op-Ed on Yemen: I am in the Yemen International Hospital in Taiz, the Yemeni city in the central highlands that is suffering from such an acute water shortage that people get to run their taps for only 36 hours every 30 days or so. They have to fill […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: 28,000 Rivers Disappeared In China … What Happened?
May 9th, 2013
Via The Atlantic, another look at China’s ‘lost’ rivers: As recently as 20 years ago, there were an estimated 50,000 rivers in China, each covering a flow area of at least 60 square miles. But now, according to China’s First National Census of Water, more than 28,000 of these rivers are missing. To put this […]
Read more »Nevada: Rancher Fears Water Grab ‘Disaster’
May 5th, 2013
Via the ReviewJournal, an interesting article on the tussle over water rights between Nevada and Utah: In Snake Valley, the sun comes up in Utah and sets in Nevada. The man in the middle has worked both sides of the line for more than 50 years. Dean Baker moved to the valley 300 miles northeast […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Plans to Harness Chinese River’s Power Threaten a Region
May 5th, 2013
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on the impact of China’s plan to build a series of dams on the Nu River: From its crystalline beginnings as a rivulet seeping from a glacier on the Tibetan Himalayas to its broad, muddy amble through the jungles of Myanmar, the Nu River is one of […]
Read more »Dams In The Amazon: The Rights And Wrongs Of Belo Monte
May 3rd, 2013
Courtesy of The Economist, an article on the return Brazil is getting for having spent $14 billion to make the world’s third-biggest hydroelectric project greener: THE biggest building site in Brazil is neither in the concrete jungle of São Paulo nor in beachside Rio de Janeiro, which is being revamped to host the 2016 Olympics. […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Why Has Water-Rich Yunnan Become A Drought Hotspot?
May 3rd, 2013
Via China Dialogue, a look at why calls by Yunnan officials to restrict water flows to other countries overlook the ecological and water quality factors behind south-west China’s drought:   Yunnan’s drought continues. During China’s annual parliamentary session in March, the deputy party secretary of the south-west Chinese province, Qiu He, blamed spring floodwaters that […]
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