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Nile Basin Tension Mounts As Waters Decline
August 28th, 2014
Via AllAfrica, a report on rising tensions in Africa over limited water supplies: Today, nearly a billion people in the developing world don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. In sub-Saharan Africa, people’s true potential is restricted by time lost trying to gather water and energy spent suffering from water-borne diseases. Education is lost […]
Read more »Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Tripartite Talks Resume
August 27th, 2014
Via Future Directions International, an update on the recently restarted discussions over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Talks about the GERD froze in January this year, after Sudan publicly expressed support for the construction of the dam. Egypt and Ethiopia agreed to meet again in Khartoum on 25 August, to discuss issues and concerns about […]
Read more »Mideast Water Wars: In Iraq, A Battle For Control Of Water
August 26th, 2014
Courtesy of Yale’s Environment360, a look at how conflicts over water have long haunted the Middle East but, in the current fighting in Iraq, the major dams on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are seen not just as strategic targets but as powerful weapons of war: There is a water war going on in the […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Largest City Thirsts For Water
August 24th, 2014
Via Philly.com, a report on Pakistan’s water crisis: In this Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 photo, Pakistanis block a road with rocks during a protest against water and electricity shortages, in Karachi, Pakistan. On the outskirts of the slums of Pakistan’s biggest city, protesters burning tires and throwing stones have what sounds like a simple demand: […]
Read more »Iran: Dried Out
August 22nd, 2014
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on Iran, where poor planning, populist policies and drought have contributed to a critical water shortage: Let the river run through it: the dried out Zayandeh Roud at Isfahan Farmers who worked the fertile lands around Isfahan have had to find a new way to make a living […]
Read more »In Middle East, It Could Soon Be A Battle For Water
August 18th, 2014
Via Down To Earth, an interesting article on how, along with scarcity induced by population pressure, use of water as a weapon of war is also draining resources in the Middle East: Raining rockets and bombs or threat of Islamic State (IS) jihadists are not the only emergencies in the countries of West Asia. The […]
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