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The Thirsty Dragon: ‘Parched’ Chinese City Plans To Pump Water From Russian Lake
March 8th, 2017
Via Windows on Eurasia, a report on how urban planners in Lanzhou, China have drawn up proposals to pipe water into the chronically dry region from Siberia’s Lake Baikal: China is reportedly considering plans to build a 1,000km (620 mile) pipeline to pump water all the way from Siberia to its drought-stricken northwest. According to reports […]
Read more »Three Maps Show How Water Access Can Make Or Break A Nation
March 7th, 2017
Via ValueWalk, a look at the importance of water access to nation states: Water access can impact a country’s geopolitics in many ways. The first (and one of the most obvious) is sea access. Access to the world’s oceans enables a country to use major maritime shipping routes. It also opens an additional route by which a […]
Read more »East Africa: Museveni – There Is No Reason for Conflict Over River Nile
March 7th, 2017
Courtesy of AllAfrica, a report on Uganda’s view on the simmering Nile conflict: President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda has not yet ratified the “Nile Agreement” on the use of the River Nile waters, as it is pursuing a maximum consensus on the issue. He said the disagreement between Egypt and other nations on the […]
Read more »Truth, Lies, and Water: Are Australia’s Water Policies Washing Billions Of Dollars Down The Drain?
March 5th, 2017
Via the Asia & The Pacific Policy Society, some interesting commentary on how policies on the Murray-Darling Basin are costing Australian taxpayers billions, and may leave the country high and dry when the next drought hits: Just as conventional conflicts are fought along battlefronts with troops and weapons, helped along by deception and subterfuge, so […]
Read more »Water Management In Afghanistan
March 5th, 2017
Via Ariana News, a report on water management in Afghanistan: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in the 4th National conference “ Water and Sustainable Development” held in Presidential palace declared water as one of the key important sources for development of Afghanistan and insisted on comprehensive management of Water, saying well management of water will decrease poverty […]
Read more »Mexico: It’s Not Just Lead That’s Poisoning The Water… It’s Also Politics
March 4th, 2017
Via The Washington Post, a look at how politics hinder access to safe water in Mexico’s cities — and many of the same political issues also may be at work in U.S. cities: Lead poisoning, low water pressure and contamination of water sources are widespread problems in Mexican cities. Aging, decaying infrastructure is the problem — […]
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