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Peak Salt: Is The Desalination Dream Over For The Gulf states?
September 30th, 2016
Via The Guardian, an interesting report on the Middle East’s desalination plants, where the more water they process, the less economically viable they become: Gulf states are among the most water-scarce in the world. With few freshwater resources and low rainfall, many countries have turned to desalination (where salt is removed from seawater) for their clean […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Why the India-Pakistan War Over Water Is So Dangerous
September 30th, 2016
Via Foreign Policy, a look at the how – as New Delhi and Islamabad trade nuclear threats and deadly attacks – a brewing war over shared water resources threatens to turn up the violence: Early on the morning of Sept. 29, according to India’s Defense Ministryand military, Indian forces staged a “surgical strike” in Pakistan-administered Kashmir that […]
Read more »Iran, Australia Sign Water Management Pact
September 28th, 2016
Via MEHR News, a report on a new water management pact between Iran and Australia: Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian and the Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Steven Ciobo in a meeting in Tehran signed a new cooperation pact on water management. Hamid Chitchian pointing to the signing of a memorandum of understanding […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Shrinking Water Supply + Rising Demand = Anger
September 26th, 2016
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at India, where shrinking water supply and rising demand is stirring anger: THE toll was not shocking by Indian standards: two dead, nearly 100 vehicles torched and some 400 “miscreants” arrested. Nor did the violence that erupted on September 12th in Bangalore, capital of the southern state of Karnataka, […]
Read more »Indus Waters Treaty Rides Out Latest Crisis
September 25th, 2016
Via The Third Pole, an interesting look at how a recent terrorist attack has led to the questioning of the Indus Waters Treaty in India, but officially there is no move to change or rescind it: The 1960 World Bank-mediated Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan is considered one of the great success stories of water diplomacy, especially […]
Read more »‘I am Lake Urmia’: A Social Media Initiative Focuses On Iran’s Environment
September 24th, 2016
Via The Guardian, an interesting look at how Iran’s Lake Urmia’s grim destiny reflects a wider trend of enviromental problems in Iran, including an over-reliance on dams, extreme weather patterns, climatic changes, poor irrigation practices and unregulated use of water: Long tucked away behind the mountains of northwest Iran, Lake Urmia is becoming a national symbol of environmental […]
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