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The Thirsty Dragon: Across Much of China, Huge Harvests Irrigated with Industrial and Agricultural Runoff
January 20th, 2013
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a detailed look at the world’s largest grain producer: The horizon gleams with a golden hue from the wheat fields that spread in all directions here in Shandong, a prime food-growing province on the lower reaches of the Yellow River. As hundreds of farmers spread the wheat like massive carpets […]
Read more »Sharing Central Asia’s Waters: The Case Of Afghanistan
January 20th, 2013
Via the International Water Law Project, a look at Afghanistan’s regional water issues: Afghanistan has four major river basins. All are international watercourses as that term is defined in the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of Non-navigable Uses of International Watercourses. When looking at the waters in Afghanistan the regional history cannot be ignored […]
Read more »Could Chinese Loans Pull China Into African Water Conflicts?
January 15th, 2013
Via ChinaDialogue, an article on the possibility that Chinese-funded dam and irrigation projects may nurture conflict in Africa: China has made great efforts to support poverty reduction in Africa, and likes to present itself as a friend of the African people. But loans for contentious dam and irrigation projects now threaten to pull China into […]
Read more »Regional Implications Of The Indus Basin Water Tension
January 15th, 2013
Via Pakistan’s Express Tribune, an interesting report on “Pakistan’s stance is simply that it just doesn’t trust India regarding the water issue,†said Feisal Naqvi. He was speaking about the Indus Water Treaty, signed in 1960, at a roundtable, Indus Water Treaty, Trans-boundary Water Issues and Prospects of Peace in South Asia, at the Forman […]
Read more »Water Supply Crises Listed High On The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2013 Report
January 13th, 2013
Via Takadu, highlights of a recent World Economic Forum report: The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2013 report is developed from an annual survey of over 1,000 experts from industry, government, academia and civil society who were asked to review a landscape of 50 global risks. The global risk that respondents rated most likely to manifest over the […]
Read more »Water Grabbers: A Global Rush On Freshwater And Saudi Arabia’s Great Thirst; The Kingdom Stakes A Claim On The Nile
January 12th, 2013
Via National Geographic, an interesting look at Saudi Arabia’s efforts to utilize part of the Nile’s water: Papyrus reed boats cross the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia, where some people claim their water is being handed over to Saudi business interests. The cows appear on the horizon like a mirage. Drive about a hundred miles […]
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