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Sharing Water: Israel And Jordan Finalise Agreement For Red Sea-Dead Sea Pipeline
March 26th, 2015
Via Future Directions International, a report on how development of the US$900 million Red Sea-Dead Sea water sharing project is set to go ahead following the finalisation of the Jordan-Israel water supply agreement in February: Background Accessing enough fresh water to cater to rising demand is an ongoing challenge in the Middle East. For Jordan […]
Read more »The Power of Water
March 22nd, 2015
Via Green Money, commentary by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President of Waterkeeper Alliance: Water has emerged as the target of choice for the robber barons of globalization. As freshwater supplies dwindle, global investors are scrambling to own what’s left. The World Bank already values water privatization at $1 trillion and predicts that many of the wars […]
Read more »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 […]
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