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The Case For Canada Selling Its Water
January 15th, 2016
Via Corporate Knights, commentary on the potential for Canada to sell its water: If you want to see water start a fire, suggest to a Canadian that their country should consider selling any of its very large water reserves – a fifth of all the Earth’s standing surface freshwater, and seven per cent of the […]
Read more »World Economic Forum Ranks Water Crises As Top Long-term Risk
January 14th, 2016
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, commentary on the World Economic Forum’s recent report that shows that water is connected to the world’s most severe problems: An annual survey of the world’s business, political, and scholarly elite reinforces a message that leaders are beginning to understand with greater depth and clarity: pay attention to water. The […]
Read more »Boiling Over: Water And Security Hot Spots 2016
January 13th, 2016
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting look at 10 places where water issues could undermine civic stability: After five years of civil war, the humanitarian crisis in Syria has reached massive proportions: More than 4.6 million people have fled the country as refugees, and at least 7.6 million more are internally displaced within Syria, […]
Read more »Ganges Dam Project Stumbles On Indian-Bangladeshi Dispute
January 13th, 2016
Via Trust.org, a report on tensions arising from Bangladesh’s plan to build a dam on the Ganges River: Bangladesh’s plan to build a dam on the Ganges River to ease water shortages in its southwest coastal region hangs in the balance as neighbouring India has yet to accept the plan. Bangladesh started work on the […]
Read more »The Hydraulic Hypothesis And The End Of Civilization
January 1st, 2016
Via Science, an interesting look at the idea that – if agriculture is the basis for a society, and it is carried out in a semi-arid region – then the management of water through various forms of irrigation and the centralized control of the agricultural cycle lends itself to centralized despotic leadership: OK, I admit […]
Read more »Farmers Try Political Force To Twist Open California’s Taps
January 1st, 2016
Via The New York Times, a detailed look at how farmers are using political force to obtain more water for their fields: The message that Maria L. Gutierrez gave legislators on Capitol Hill was anguished and blunt: California’s historic drought had not merely left farmland idle. It had destroyed Latino farm workers’ jobs, shuttered Latino […]
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