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Water-Related Terrorism Is On the Rise
May 14th, 2018
Via the Wilson Center, a report on water related terrorism: In 2014, after losing a number of Somalian cities it had captured to African Union and Somali troops, the terrorist group Al-Shabaab changed its tactics. To demonstrate its continued power and presence, Al-Shabaab cut off water supplies to its formerly held cities. Residents from these cut-off cities […]
Read more »Cape Town’s Day Zero: First Of Many Ahead Worldwide?
May 11th, 2018
Via the Global Policy Journal, commentary on lessons that other cities around the world may glean from Cape Town’s water crisis: Four million lives could hang in the balance, but how Cape Town responds to her water crisis could set the example for cities around the world. Three years of continued drought in Cape Town, South Africa has nearly […]
Read more »Causes of the Drought in Southern Iraq
May 9th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, a report on Iraq’s drought: A worsening drought is threatening agriculture and livelihoods in the Dhi Qar Governorate of Iraq, 300 kilometres south of Baghdad. Other southern agricultural governorates, including Al-Q?disiyyah, Muthanna and Missan, are also suffering under the effects of the drought. The southern agricultural provinces of Iraq are home […]
Read more »A Balkan Dam Boom Imperils Europe’s Wildest Rivers
May 8th, 2018
Via Yale’s e360, a look at how residents and conservationists are fighting back against a wave of thousands of hydroelectric projects that would block pristine, free-flowing rivers in the Balkan Peninsula, one of Europe’s most undeveloped regions: Day and night, visitors to the mountain village of Kruš?ica in central Bosnia and Herzegovina — a speck […]
Read more »Pakistan’s New National Water Policy
May 8th, 2018
Via Third Pole.net, an opinion piece on Pakistan’s new National Water Policy: The approval of a water policy package comprising a policy and a Charter by Pakistan’s Council of Common Interests on April 23 represents a historic milestone given the lingering, perennial disputes between the Punjab and Sindh provinces which had impeded the formulation of […]
Read more »Is Pakistan Running Out Of Water?
May 8th, 2018
Via Third Pole.net, commentary on Pakistan’s water woes: The sight of water flowing from taps may soon be a luxury, with people having to queue up at tankers for just a bucket load of water for their daily needs. Meanwhile, affluent neighbourhoods in gated communities may install desalination plants paid for (by volume) by wealthy […]
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