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The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Aims To Have Mastery of Asia’s Water Tap by 2020
January 3rd, 2013
Via The Huffington Post, an interesting report on China’s thirst for Asian water in the years ahead: China has a damming programme for six of the world’s great rivers that rise in Tibet – the Indus, Sutlej, Mekong, Brahmaputra, Salween and Yangste – and feed by irrigation an estimated 1.3 billion people. The Mekong whose […]
Read more »The Brahmaputra: Water Hotspot In Himalayan Asia
January 3rd, 2013
Via the Global Water Forum, an interesting article on the Brahmaputra: Analysts around the world increasingly have their eyes on the Brahmaputra River, a transboundary watercourse with headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau of the Himalayan mountain range. The three riparian states sharing the Brahmaputra – China, India, and Bangladesh – are the world’s first, second, […]
Read more »Egyptian Mega Projects on the Nile: Repercussions and Implications to Ethiopia
January 3rd, 2013
Via The Ethiopia Times, an interesting article on potential implications of Ethiopian projects on the Nile: Recently I came across one commentary by an Egyptian management consultant by the name Ms. Rania Al-Maghraby (PM World Journal, Vol. I, Issue III-October 2012). With a candid English and pleasant conceptual flow, she mentioned some of the Mega […]
Read more »Water Scarcity: A Daunting Challenge with a Hopeful Future?
January 3rd, 2013
Via Knowledge@Wharton, an article on the potential for technology to help ease some of the world’s water stress: At the very least, 2012 has been a challenging year for Spain, whose economy continues to suffer due to ongoing fallout from the financial crisis. While the country’s construction industry has been at the heart of this […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Coming Water Crisis
January 3rd, 2013
Via Fortune, a report on how dire China’s water stress may become by 2030: After each Presidential election, The National Intelligence Council (NIC), the Washington, D.C., agency that provides long-term strategic analysis to America’s intelligence community, releases a report on security risks. Its newest report, issued on December 10th and called Global Trends 2030: Alternative […]
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