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The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Coal Industry Guzzles Precious Water
May 5th, 2014
Via the Seattle Times, a report on China’s watergy crisis as plants turning coal into gas, chemicals and electricity are sucking up vast amounts of water in a nation already struggling with serious shortages: Steaming water, discharged from a coal-to-gas plant in Inner Mongolia, spreads out over the landscape. On a bitter cold day in […]
Read more »Ravenous Russia = Thirsty Crimea
May 4th, 2014
Via The Daily Beast, a detailed look at water related implications of Russia’s annexation of Crimea: As violence rages in Odessa and eastern Ukraine, with buildings burning, helicopters downed, urban combat and hostage taking, chaos may soon solidify into a concerted Russian military campaign. But if Moscow’s tanks and thousands of troops cross Ukraine’s eastern […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon And Parched Tiger: An Impending India-China Water War Over The Brahmaputra?
May 4th, 2014
Via the Eurasia Review, a look at water tensions between India and China: Recently, Claude Arpi, renowned scholar on China wrote about how China’s aspirations to divert the waters of the Brahmaputra River were feeding into mounting disagreements between New Delhi and Beijing. China has consistently been moving ahead with its dam construction projects and […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Tapped Out – Will Hong Kong Run Out of Water?
May 1st, 2014
Via Quartz, an interesting look at Hong Kong’s water challenge: If Hong Kong and water had a relationship status on Facebook, it would be “It’s complicated.” On the one hand, Hong Kong has been progressive and forward-thinking with water — it was the first city in the world to use seawater for toilet-flushing and one […]
Read more »U.S. Southwest: High And Dry
April 28th, 2014
Via RAND Corporation, a detailed look at implications of climate change on water supplies & management in the United States’ southwest: Droughts across the western United States have left water managers worried like never before. The Colorado River and its reservoirs, upon which seven states rely, are being depleted by 14 years of drought nearly […]
Read more »Brazil’s Cup Runneth Under…
April 28th, 2014
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how dry weather and a growing population are spelling rationing for Brazil: BRAZIL has the world’s biggest reserves of fresh water. That most of it sits in the sparsely populated Amazon has not historically stopped Brazilians in the drier, more populous south taking it for granted. No longer. […]
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