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Pakistan: Tackling Its Water Shortages
July 9th, 2013
Via The International News, an article on Pakistan’s water challenges: Pakistan has been facing several major crises that include terrorism, the Balochistan and Karachi issues, electricity and gas shortages besides economic stagnation. It is unfortunate that some major crises have diverted the attention of the government and people away from other major issues. The water […]
Read more »South Sudan: Dams, Droughts, Desertification and Water Wars
July 9th, 2013
Courtesy of AllAfrica, a look at South Sudan’s water woes: Water, not oil, will determine the economic fate and well-being of Sudan and South Sudan. In many African countries, sewage, mud and other contaminants compromise water, health and food security. But desertification, drought and violence are crippling these two recently divorced nations. In the Darfur […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Does China Have Enough Water to Burn Coal?
July 8th, 2013
Via Scientific American, an interesting look at China’s thirst for power, specifically the disconnect between China’s rising demand for coal but the parched country’s growing challenges in finding enough water to cool its coal-fired power plants: By many measures, this northern Chinese city is an ideal candidate for being China’s Wyoming. It has more brown […]
Read more »Bhutan: Banking On ‘White Gold’ Hydropower
July 8th, 2013
Via Energy Daily, an interesting article on Bhutan’s hydropower ambitions: Home to meditating monks and Himalayan nomads, the sleepy kingdom of Bhutan has set its sights on becoming an unlikely energy powerhouse thanks to its abundant winding rivers. Hydropower plants have already harnessed the country’s water flows to light up nearly every Bhutanese home, generating […]
Read more »The Real Threat To Our Future Is Peak Water
July 6th, 2013
Via The Guardian, a look at a new essay from Lester Brown noting that wells are drying up and underwater tables falling so fast in the Middle East and parts of India, China and the US that food supplies are seriously threatened: Kansas’s Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in 2012, during the worst drought in the […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Water – Indian Business’ New Crisis
July 6th, 2013
Via Forbes, a report on India’s water crisis: Even as the numbers of dead and missing rose from the disastrous floods in the Himalayan rivers, it was a water calamity of a different kind in southern India. In coastal Chennai, a base to automakers and IT services firms, a severe water shortage pushed several companies […]
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