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No Namibia-Angola Conflict Over Water
January 25th, 2018
Via New Era, commentary on water tensions between Namibia and Angola: The Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry John Mutorwa has dismissed media reports implying Angolan authorities want Namibia to start paying for the water that it draws from the Calueque Dam. This follows a report by the Namibian Sun that it appears that Namibia has […]
Read more »Water Conflict: Will A Drying Iran Face Syria’s Fate?
January 24th, 2018
Via Geopolitical Monitor, a look at the potential for water related unrest in Iran: Perhaps one of the most quoted predictions regarding the increasing role of water conflicts in global affairs belongs to former vice-president of the World Bank Ismail Serageldin, who in 1995 famously claimed, “Many of the wars of this century were about oil, […]
Read more »Water Scarcity: Threat To India and South Africa
January 24th, 2018
Via the Climate News Network, an article on how more than a third of India’s electricity supply is at risk from water scarcity, which also threatens urban life in parts of South Africa: Water scarcity is now a real threat in two developing countries at the forefront of efforts to reduce climate change, India and […]
Read more »Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Search for Resolution Continues despite Increased Geopolitical Competition
January 24th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, a report on growing tensions arising from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Egypt and Sudan raised concerns about the development of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) when plans were unveiled in 2011. A conciliatory tone was adopted between all three states in March 2015 when the Khartoum declaration was signed. […]
Read more »Uzbekistan & Tajikistan: Catalysts For A Central Asian Water Solution?
January 24th, 2018
Via Times of Central Asia, a report on water in Central Asia: The use and management of water has always been a complicated and very sensitive issue in Central Asia. An important power generation and irrigation resource, water can be both a source of conflict and an area for cooperation between countries of the region. […]
Read more »Warming, Water Crisis, Then Unrest: How Iran Fits an Alarming Pattern
January 24th, 2018
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on Iran’s water tensions: Lake Urmia, in northwestern Iran, has diminished by nearly 90 percent since the early 1970s. Nigeria. Syria. Somalia. And now Iran. In each country, in different ways, a water crisis has triggered some combination of civil unrest, mass migration, insurgency or even full-scale […]
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