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Boko Haram: Exacerbating and Benefiting From Water Insecurity in the Lake Chad Basin
September 19th, 2017
Via Future Directions International, analysis of the impact of water insecurity on Boko Haram’s growth in the Lake Chad basin area: Key Points The Lake Chad basin suffers from multiple security stressors, including widespread unemployment, poverty and conflict. Rising food and water insecurity exacerbates the tensions that arise from these stressors. Food and water insecurity […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: China and India Water ‘Dispute’ After Border Stand-Off
September 19th, 2017
Via the BBC, a report on an emerging dispute between China and India over water: China and India may have defused a potential border conflict but the stand-off seems to have led to dispute over another contentious issue: water. Delhi says it has not received any hydrological – the scientific study of the movement, distribution […]
Read more »U.S. And Mexico Agree To Share A Shrinking Colorado River
September 19th, 2017
Via the High Country News, a report on how the two nations are poised to sign an updated water pact to deal with drought: On a sunny March morning in 2014, dam operators lifted a gate on the Morelos Dam on the Colorado River, at the U.S.-Mexico border. Water gushed toward the river’s dry delta at […]
Read more »Iraq’s Wetlands: Drying Up Again
September 18th, 2017
Via The Economist, an article on how war and dysfunctional politics threaten Iraq’s marshlands: THE recovery of southern Iraq’s marshlands is arguably one of the great environmental triumphs of recent times. Reduced to dust and withered reeds when Saddam Hussein drained them to flush out rebels in the 1990s, the wetlands once again buzz with […]
Read more »Iran and Afghanistan To Jointly Restore Hamun Lake
September 13th, 2017
Via The Iran Project, a report on plans by Iran and Afghanistan to launch joint project to restore Hamun Lake: Tehran and Kabul are preparing a joint strategic plan aimed at restoring Hamun Lake, which lies in the Iran-Afghanistan border, an Iranian official said. Head of the Wetlands Office of the Iranian Department of Environment, Arezoo […]
Read more »In Pakistan, Arsenic-Laced Water Puts Millions At Risk
September 13th, 2017
Via WorldCrunch, a report on the tragedy unfolding with Pakistan’s water supply: In vintage crime novels, there is often someone murdered by slow poisoning, and arsenic has been a common weapon of choice. It works the same way in your body — slowly killing you — if it is present in the water you drink beyond a […]
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