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Restoring Mesopotamian Marshes: A Vision Of Regional Water Cooperation For The Middle East?
September 4th, 2013
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting article on the restoration of Iraq’s mesopotamian marshes which also offers a grander vision for regional water cooperation throughout the Middle East and elsewhere: Mesopotamian Marshland Map: NeNear the end of their 1,900- and 2,800-kilometer journey, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, respectfully, feed into the Mesopotamian Marshlands of […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China To Supply Water To Taiwan’s Outlying Islands
September 4th, 2013
Via Focus Taiwan, a report on Chinese/Taiwanese water diplomacy: Taiwan and China have agreed to provide fresh water from the southeastern Chinese city of Jinjiang to the Taiwan-held outlying county of Kinmen, to solve a looming water shortage that is expected to hurt the county’s economic lifeline. The set of islands that make up Kinmen […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Every Year, Beijing Uses 400 Billion More Gallons of Water Than It’s Got
September 1st, 2013
Via Motherboard, a report on China’s water stress: The words “impending water shortage,†bring to mind arid places in the Middle East or Las Vegas. But in Beijing, the per capita annual water availability is well below the United Nations’ absolute water scarcity threshold, at just a tenth of the world average. China’s capital city […]
Read more »Water Politics On The Nile
August 31st, 2013
Via the Orange County Register, commentary on the Nile water rift: Egypt’s sense of nationhood is tied up in control of the Nile. So is energy self sufficiency for Ethiopia. The clash between these two realities can have deadly consequences. America will be tempted to intervene – on the wrong side. The issue is a […]
Read more »The Global Water Crisis: Why Water Politics Matter For Business Security
August 31st, 2013
Courtesy of The Guardian, a report on the need for global cooperation to ensure water security: Despite political tension between the two countries, India and Pakistan have cooperated over the Indus River. The world is facing a global water crisis. This year, the World Economic Forum and world business leaders identified that water supply crises […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Red To Grey
August 30th, 2013
Courtesy of The Economist, a report on China’s environmental and water challenges ahead: ALL industrial nations one day hit an environmental turning-point, an event that dramatises to the population the ecological consequences of growth. In America that event occurred in 1969 when the Cuyahoga river in Ohio, thick with pollutants and bereft of fish, caught […]
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