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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 […]
Read more »Ethiopia’s Plan to Dam the Nile Has Egypt Fuming
July 2nd, 2013
Via Time Magazine, a summary of the Ethiopia-Egypt tensions over the Nile: The heat is stifling but the construction workers and red-hatted engineers don’t let up. Mechanized excavators batter into the mighty, arid peaks on either side of the site of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance dam, set to be the largest in Africa. The foundations are […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: The Story Of The Xiaonanhai Dam
July 2nd, 2013
Via China Dialogue, an article on China’s Xiaonanhai dam: Chongqing has been pushing the Xiaonanhai Dam onto the agenda since 2005. After Bo Xilai became Party Secretary, preparations for the dam intensified, leaving state authorities and even the Three Gorges Group on the back foot. Yet the dam will have an enormous impact on the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Rivers Threatened As China, Kazakhstan Water Pact Remains Elusive
July 2nd, 2013
Via Radio Free Asia, a report on increasing tensions over rivers in Central Asia: Industrial plants and other development projects in China’s northwest region of Xinjiang are hampering the flow of two key rivers into neighboring Kazakhstan and dumping hazardous chemicals into them as the two countries appear to be far from reaching agreement on […]
Read more »Water And The Geopolitics Of The Nile Valley: Egypt Confronts Ethiopia
June 23rd, 2013
Via Global Research, a detailed look at the geopolitics of the Nile river: Several African states have rejected statements made by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi which have challenged the right of Ethiopia to utilize water from the Blue Nile in order to construct a hydro-electric dam. Ethiopia says that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project […]
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