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The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Tensions Over The Yarlung Tsangpo River
March 11th, 2014
Courtesy of China Dialogue, a close three-part look at the Yarlung Tsangpo river – one of the world’s great transboundary rivers – which starts on the Tibetan Plateau before passing through India and Bangladesh. As background, the Yarlung Tsangpo Brahmaputra-Jamuna river, begins in the high glaciers of the Tibetan Himalaya. Its most dramatic passages come […]
Read more »Egypt Turns To Saudi For Help Over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam
March 11th, 2014
Via Green Prophet, an update on tensions arising around the Grand Renaissance Dam: When all else fails, run to wealthy Saudi Arabia. That seems to be the prevailing thought among Egyptian officials at a loss to resolve the ongoing dispute with Ethiopia over Nile water rights. At one point it seemed that the two countries might […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Falling Behind On 2020 Hydro Goals
March 11th, 2014
Via China Digital Times, a report that China is falling behind on its hydro generation targets: Due to increasingly stringent hydro project approval rules, and despite warnings of a “Faustian bargain” with a runaway “hydro-industrial complex,” China is falling behind on its target to raise the country’s hydro generation capacity by half before 2020. David Stanway at Reuters […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: The Human Impact Of China’s Desperate Need For Water
March 8th, 2014
Via Quartz, a report on how China’s desperate need for water is forcing the relocation of hundreds of thousands of people: Villagers in Danjiangkou prepare to move their belongings in 2009, ahead of the resettlement process. Once a collection of agrarian villages, Danjiangkou, about 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) south of Beijing, is now a small but bustling […]
Read more »The Myitsone Tug Of War
March 6th, 2014
Via The Guardian, an update on the controversial Myitsone dam project, at the headwaters of the Irrawaddy, which is caught in tug of war between the state and a Chinese corporation: Children looking at the Myitsone dam from the banks of the Irrawaddy River, Kachin state, Burma. Lapai Zoong kicks the red dirt outside […]
Read more »Mongolia’s Water Scarcity Could Threaten Its Economic Boom
March 6th, 2014
Courtesy of The Guardian, a report on how one resource-rich country is riding high economically but a battle is brewing for water between people, mining and agriculture: The Gobi desert. The Mongolian mining boom may promise great things for economy but chronic water stress is a cause for concern. The sight of foreign faces in […]
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