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Ethiopian Dam Threatens To Destroy Indigenous Livelihoods And The World’s Largest Desert Lake
January 11th, 2013
Via National Geographic, a report on Ethiopia’s Gibe III dam: Over the last century, the construction of big dams to generate power, supply water and control floods has unleashed a damaging cascade of social and environmental consequences – including the destruction of fisheries, subsistence farmlands, homes and communities. More than 470 million people around the […]
Read more »Regional Cooperation On Mekong At Low Ebb
January 11th, 2013
Via WWF, regional cooperation around Mekong River issues is at a low ebb at present: Ministers from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam meeting next week in the Lao city of Luang Prabang must put derailed decision-making on Mekong River mainstream dams back on track or risk sabotaging management of one of the world’s great rivers, […]
Read more »A Parched Future: Global Land And Water Grabbing
January 9th, 2013
Via 3Quarks Daily, a look at the convergence of land and water grabbing worldwide: Land grabbing refers to the large-scale acquisition of comparatively inexpensive agricultural land in foreign countries by foreign governments or corporations. In most cases, the acquired land is located in under-developed countries in Africa, Asia or South America, while the grabbers are […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Hobbled on Energy, India Ponders a Multitude of Dams
January 9th, 2013
Via The New York Times, an article on India’s growing water stress and its plans to construct a large number of dams to help address its watergy constraint: As we noted here last week, over 600 million people lost power in India last summer, setting a modern record for the number of people affected by […]
Read more »U.S. Water Wars: Supreme Court To Decide On Texans’ Bid For Oklahoma’s Water
January 9th, 2013
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at Texas’ bid for more water from neighboring Oklahoma: A reservoir in southeastern Oklahoma in the Kiamichi River basin. Oklahoma officials have blocked the Tarrant County Water Authority in northern Texas from exporting water from the Kiamichi basin; the Texas claims on that water will now be […]
Read more »U.S. Water Politics: Conservation Vs. Infrastructure
January 4th, 2013
Via Chance of Rain, an interesting look at politics surrounding the conservation vs. infrastructure movement in the United States: WHAT western water managers preach and what western water managers do is often contradictory. This much can be relied on: inconsistency starts at the top. Only this month a long-awaited report issued by the federal Bureau […]
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