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The Thirsty Dragon: Drilling Holes In The Top Of The World
April 9th, 2014
Via Quartz, a report on how China’s appetite for resources is taking them to Tibet: Take a picture; it may not look like this for long. Chinese oil and gas explorers have drilled a deep borehole in the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s largest and highest plateau at about 4,500m above sea level, according to the South China Morning Post. The project, whose […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Tibetan Water Resources And Chinese Dams
April 9th, 2014
Via Tibet.net, an interesting piece of a larger report on the Third Pole: Rivers originating from Tibet flows to more than ten countries and play a vital role in the environmental services and socioeconomic of each country. These rivers (Table2) enable the Tibetan Plateau to become a strategic platform in exercising its dominance over the […]
Read more »Quenching Kenya: Can New Water Discoveries Save East Africa?
April 9th, 2014
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting article on the role that two recently discovered aquifers in Kenya may play in regional development and politics: An armed Turkana man walks towards the shores of Lake Turkana, October 12, 2013. Water scarcity is becoming the defining international crisis of the twenty-first century. Water conflicts rage across the world […]
Read more »Egypt Remains Reactionary As Nile Saga Continues
April 9th, 2014
Via Future Directions Interational, a look at how the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam by Ethiopia continues to create tension in Egypt over regional water security. Egypt remains vocal in its objection to the project, but will need to adopt a more co-operative outlook if real progress is to be made on regional water […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Furious Himalayan Flood Could Bury India’s Hydropower Program
April 2nd, 2014
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a detailed look at how a treacherous mountain range in India’s Uttarakhand region unleashed a torrent of water, mud, and boulders that was long anticipated and willfully ignored, and the impact it will have upon India’s hydropower plans: The Uttarakhand flood exceeded every previous high-end boundary of water surge, […]
Read more »Sinking Hopes: San Joaquin Valley Sinking As Farmers Race To Tap Aquifer
April 2nd, 2014
Courtesy of the San Jose Mercury News, an interesting article on the deleterious impact wells are having upon California aquifers: So wet was the San Joaquin Valley of Steve Arthur’s childhood that a single 240-foot-deep well could quench the thirst of an arid farm. Now his massive rig, bucking and belching, must drill 1,200 feet […]
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