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World Bank Drawn Into Indus Waters Treaty Dispute
November 13th, 2016
Via Third Pole.net, a report on two separate processes by India and Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty that threaten to drag the World Bank into the dispute, and threaten to undermine the treaty: India has accused the World Bank of following procedures not in consonance with the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT). The IWT governs […]
Read more »Iran’s Water Crisis
November 11th, 2016
Via Al Jazeera, a look at Iran’s water crisis: It is hard to imagine life without access to sufficient quantities of fresh water, but in some parts of the world, particularly the Middle East, that is becoming more than a theoretically disturbing possibility, as climate change, mass migration, environmental degradation, drought and political instability – […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Milk Revolution Drains Punjab Dry
November 11th, 2016
Courtesy of The Guardian, a look at how drought is affecting India’s dairy industry: The severity of the latest El Niño weather cycle led to rivers and lakes drying up in northern India. The children in the villages […]
Read more »Climate, Human Influence Conspire In Lake Urmia’s Decline
November 11th, 2016
Via Terra Daily, an update on a new study looking at the decline of Iran’s Lake Urmia: The dramatic decline of Iran’s Lake Urmia – once the second-largest hypersaline lake in the world – has both direct human and climatic causes, according to a new study published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research. The […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India Top Court Orders Punjab State To Share River Water
November 11th, 2016
Via Daily Seed, a report that India’s top court has ordered Punjab state to share river water: India’s top court ordered authorities in northern Punjab state Thursday to share river water supplies with a neighbouring state, triggering a spate of resignations by angry lawmakers. The water dispute between Punjab and Haryana has been simmering for over […]
Read more »Liquidity Crisis
November 6th, 2016
Courtesy of The Economist, a detailed report on the world’s need to conserve water, use it more efficiently and establish clear rights over who owns it: “NOTHING is more useful than water,” observed Adam Smith, but “scarcely anything can be had in exchange for it.” The father of free-market economics noted this paradox in 18th-century […]
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