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Pakistan’s Water Experts: Fear For The Country’s Future
June 15th, 2016
Courtesy of The Third Pole, a look at how – as its population explodes – Pakistan stares at a future where it will be a water scarce country: Dams, dams and more dams – of all sizes and kinds need to be built on a war footing because failing to do so would be disastrous […]
Read more »Water Scarcity, Excess And The Geopolitics Of Allocation
June 15th, 2016
Via Knowledge@Wharton, an interesting report on the geopolitics of water allocation: “When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water,” said Benjamin Franklin. Much of the world has taken water for granted over the years, but that situation is quickly changing. Today, the use of this essential resource is being more closely scrutinized […]
Read more »Water Scarcity Could Impact West Asian Credit Ratings
June 13th, 2016
Via Inter Press Service, an interesting look at how water shortage potentially could have more impact on sovereign credit ratings than natural catastrophes: Water scarcity, conflict and refugee exodus is the strongest megatrend in West Asia, indicating the status of current trends and how these factors may shape the future, according to UN Environment Programme’s […]
Read more »Venezuela: How a Water Crisis Brought A Country To Its Knees
June 7th, 2016
Via The Conversation, an interesting look at the role of water in Venezuela’s current national crisis: Venezuela is experiencing critical shortages, prompting concerns that a humanitarian crisis will engulf this oil-rich South American country. Food, medicine, money, electricity and water are all either rationed or unavailable, as Nicolas Maduro’s government confronts deep recession and drought. The halving of […]
Read more »Colombia: Rough Waters Ahead
June 7th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of how Colombia’s abundant water does not mean security: Colombia has made great strides in advancing peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), improving the prospect of peace with the guerrilla movement and finally settling the country’s longtime security threat. But another crisis of sorts is seeping through […]
Read more »The Regional Story Behind Afghanistan’s Salma Dam
June 6th, 2016
Via The Wire, a report on the recently completed Salma dam in Herat, Afghanistan: For over ten years, the construction of the Salma dam has stretched the capacity of Indian diplomacy, administration and engineering to its limits, as New Delhi kept track of competing warlords on one side to maintain security, and the finance ministry’s beancounters on Raisina […]
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