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Egypt Dismisses Use Of Force To Solve The Nile River Conflict
May 12th, 2013
Via Pensa Latina, a report from Egypt regarding the possibility of force in resolving a lingering conflict over the Nile River: Egypt will not resort to force to resolve the dispute with Ethiopia on the quota of the Nile river water, assured the Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah el Sisi in statements cirdulated here today. […]
Read more »The Third Pole: Impact Of A Changing Climate
May 11th, 2013
Via The Economist, an interesting look at the climate of Tibet, home to the world’s third-largest area of ice: OF ALL the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life […]
Read more »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 […]
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