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Egypt Forced To Negotiate On Nile Dam
March 22nd, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of the planned agreement between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan on Nile water cooperation: Fields in Egypt along the banks of a Nile distributary, the Rosetta river, 40 kilometers North of Cairo. Summary Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will travel to Addis Ababa on March 23 to address Ethiopian lawmakers […]
Read more »Damming The Mekong River
March 21st, 2015
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting graphical look at the nearly one dozen dams are planned for the main steam of the Lower Mekong River: The Mekong River begins at the Tibetan Plateau in China and stretches through Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, before ending at the South China Sea in Vietnam. Eager […]
Read more »UN: Water Crisis Coming In 15 years Unless World Acts Now
March 20th, 2015
Via the Globe and Mail, an article on a new UNESCO report looking at the world’s water crisis: The world could suffer a 40 per cent shortfall in water in just 15 years unless countries dramatically change their use of the resource, a UN report warned Friday. Many underground water reserves are already running low, while […]
Read more »Jordan: Prevent Use Of Water For War Or Suppression
March 20th, 2015
Via The Jordan Times, a report on an upcoming conference convened by Jordan on water peace: Around 80 regional and international water experts, lawmakers and academics are scheduled to convene in Amman on Wednesday to share experiences on water cooperation and propose solutions to prevent water sources from becoming tools of war, organisers said on […]
Read more »In Russia, A Drying Lake Threatens An ‘Era Of Water Wars’
March 16th, 2015
Via Reuters, commentary on issues arising from the shrinkage of Lake Baikal: In Russia’s Siberian south, near the border of Mongolia, the world’s largest freshwater lake is shrinking. The surrounding communities depend on Lake Baikal, which contains about one-fifth of the earth’s unfrozen freshwater reserves, for their power, water and livelihoods. But in the past […]
Read more »Brazil – From The Droughts Of The Northeast To São Paulo’s Thirst
March 12th, 2015
Via Inter Press Service, a look at Brazil’s water crisis: A puddle is all that is left in one of the reservoirs of the Cantareira System, which normally supplies nearly half of the São Paulo metropolitan region. Six million people in Brazil’s biggest city, São Paulo, may at some point find themselves without water. The […]
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