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Water Pressure Plummets In Tehran
September 13th, 2016
Via Al Monitor, a report on how – after years of warnings about an impending water crisis – Tehranis are experiencing dramatic drops in water pressure and now face the likely prospect of water rationing: Iran has been threatened by a water crisis for years, a situation that is being worsened by the mismanagement of scarce water […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Protests Over Water Supplies Hit India’s Tech Hub
September 13th, 2016
Via Terra Daily, a report on recent water-related tension in India: Violent protests have broken out in the southern technology hub of Bangalore over a Supreme Court order to divert water from reservoirs to a neighbouring state. The protests have forced shops, businesses and schools to close in Bangalore, capital of Karnataka state, which has […]
Read more »China’s Dam Problem With Myanmar
September 12th, 2016
Via Project Syndicate, commentary on the issue of the Myitsone dam in Myanmar: China is a big fan of dams. Indeed, over the last 50 years, the country has constructed more dams than all other countries combined. But there is one dam that China never managed to get built: the Myitsone Dam in Myanmar. And […]
Read more »Will Inland Navigation Positively Shift South Asia’s Water Debate?
September 12th, 2016
Via Spotlight Nepal, a look at the possibility that if Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Arunachal, Meghalaya, Mizoram or Uttarakhand can see that containers from Europe or Japan can come to their doorsteps at Chatra or Chisapani and similar places elsewhere – and they could benefit from reduction in the cost of their goods – there would be […]
Read more »Iran: Caspian Water Transfer Project Under Consideration
September 8th, 2016
Via The Iran Project, a report on Iran’s consideration of a large scale water transfer project: A major project to channel water from the Caspian Sea to Iran’s central, arid province of Semnan is still under consideration, vice president and head of the Environmental Protection Organization of Iran, Masoumeh Ebtekar, said. Speaking to the Tasnim […]
Read more »Asia-Pacific: ‘Hot Spot For Water Insecurity’
September 6th, 2016
Via SciDev, a look at the stress on Asia-Pacific water resources from rising demand from users and an examination of how food growers have to compete for water with households, industries, power plants: Economies in the Asia-Pacific region cannot sustain their present dynamic growth “unless water is brought into the equation” as […]
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