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Ukraine Has Cut Back Water Supply To Crimea
April 27th, 2014
Via Terra Daily, a report on Ukraine’s reduction of water supplies to Crimea: Ukraine has reduced its water supplies to the Crimea peninsula, which was annexed by Russia last month, the region’s governor Sergei Aksyonov said Saturday. “Ukraine’s sabotage limiting the water supply to the republic through the North Crimea canal can only be qualified […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Water Woes
April 26th, 2014
Via the Eurasia Review, an article on Pakistan’s water crisis: A month ago, one of the water experts in Pakistan warned that the “most dreaded water scarcity ever” has at last hit the country. The warning came not too soon and the surprise if any is that the warning has come too late. Unlike India, […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Hydropower Overload In China
April 23rd, 2014
Via Living On Earth, the transcript of a discussion between Jennifer Turner, director of the China Environment Forum at the Washington DC’s Wilson Center, and Living on Earth’s host Steve Curwood regarding China plans to ramp up dam installation in Yunnan Province, which raises the risks for this biodiversity hotspot in Southwest China: CURWOOD: China […]
Read more »Water Wars? Think Again: Conflict Over Freshwater Structural Rather Than Strategic
April 22nd, 2014
Via New Security Beat, some interesting commentary on the potential for water wars: The global water wars are almost upon us! At least that’s how it seems to many. The signs are troubling: Egypt and Ethiopia have recently increased their aggressive posture and rhetoric over the construction of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Do China’s Dam Plans Hold Water for Low Carbon Development?
April 22nd, 2014
Via New Security Beat, a report on China’s dam building initiatives and their impact on the environment: In southwestern China, three parallel rivers – the Nu, Lancang, and Jinsha (also known as the Upper Mekong, Salween, and Yangtze, respectively) – form a series of corridors that connect the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia to the […]
Read more »Egypt To ‘Escalate’ Ethiopian Dam Dispute
April 21st, 2014
Via the Ethiopian Times, a report on the latest salvo in the Renaissance Dam dispute: In the three years since construction began on the 1.8km Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam across the Blue Nile River, Egypt and Ethiopia have been engaged in a war of words over its potential impacts. Ethiopia believes the massive dam will […]
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