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Groundwater Pumping A Major Cause Of Declining Water Storage In The Middle East
February 17th, 2013
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on how the Middle East is headed towards a water shortage crisis, as NASA satellites show that reserves the size of the Dead Sea have been depleted in just seven years, largely due to well-drilling: Variations in total water storage from normal in the Tigris and Euphrates river […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Four Ways Water Is Connected To India’s Blackouts
February 11th, 2013
Via The World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct project, an interesting look at India’s watergy challenges and that of Southeast Asia as a whole: Early last week, the strained electrical power infrastructure in northern and eastern India was pushed to its breaking point. Two days of power failures impacted a staggering 670 million people (or, put another […]
Read more »Harnessing Water Resources In Nepal
February 10th, 2013
Via The Himalayan Times, an article on Nepal’s ambitious plans to develop and harness its water resources:  It has been long discussed about exploiting water resources in Nepal multilaterally. One among it was harnessing the Koshi River basin in eastern Nepal with concerted effort of Nepal‚ India and probably Bangladesh. Bangladesh has been lobbying hard […]
Read more »South Sudan: Tension Over Water Rights Boils Over Into Conflict
February 10th, 2013
Via CNN, a sad report of how tension of water rights bubbled over into outright localized conflict recently: A heavily armed militia attacked tribesmen during a weekend cattle drive in strife-wracked South Sudan, a government official reported Sunday, leaving behind dozens of dead and possibly kidnapping hundreds of others. Unarmed civilians “were murdered in cold […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Hydro-Hegemony
February 9th, 2013
Via The New York Times, an interesting article on China’s water related role in Asia: ASIA is the world’s most water-stressed continent, a situation compounded by China’s hydro-supremacy in the region. Beijing’s recent decision to build a slew of giant new dams on rivers flowing to other countries is thus set to roil riparian relations. […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Chinese Environmentalists Lose Fight to Stop Nu River Dams
February 9th, 2013
Via Time, a report on China’s plans to go ahead with the construction of a series of dams on the Nu River, also known as the Salween, one of the last free-flowing rivers in the nation: Workers fix a floating platform used for the construction of a dam on the Nu River, also known as […]
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