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Asia’s Great Rivers: Climate Crisis, Pollution Put Billions At Risk
January 11th, 2020
Via Terra Daily, a report on the potential risk facing Asia’s great rivers: The year is 2100. The glaciers of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region — the world’s “Third Pole” — are vanishing as the planet warms, the ice that once fed the great rivers of Asia is all but lost, and with it much of […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Spends Record Sums On Water Conservation In 2019
January 11th, 2020
Via China’s Global Times, a report on China’s increased investment into water conservation projects in 2019: China spent a record 726 billion yuan (104.46 billion U.S. dollars) on water conservation projects in 2019, said a senior official with the Ministry of Water Resources Thursday. The country started the construction of 23 key water conservation projects and completed […]
Read more »Water Wars
January 10th, 2020
Via The Statesman, an opinion piece reflecting upon how – Ii the report of the California-based Pacific Institute think tank is any indication – the crippling scarcity of water the world over, has doubled water-related violence during the decade that has just gone by (2010-19): The challenge is as forbidding as it is global, verily the outcome […]
Read more »Water Wars: Early Warning Tool Uses Climate Data To Predict Conflict Hotspots
January 9th, 2020
Via The Guardian, an article on a new system that will predict where tension over water scarcity may erupt into violence: Researchers from six organisations have developed an early warning system to help predict potential water conflicts as violence associated with water surges globally. The Dutch government-funded Water, Peace and Security (WPS) global early warning tool, which […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: To Help India’s Water Crisis, Overhaul Irrigation
January 4th, 2020
Via India Climate Dialogue, a report on the tight link between India’s water crisis and wasteful flood irrigation, free electricity to farmers, and lack of remunerative pricing: The 2019 South Asian summer monsoon is late, slow and inadequate so far. If it makes up somewhat for lost time, those 55% of Indian farmers who do […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Water In India – Not A Crisis, A Management Problem
January 3rd, 2020
Via The Hindu, an interview with the Managing Director of a leading pump manufacturer providing commentary on India’s water crisis: Managing director, INDO Region, of Grundfos Pumps India says Mumbai and its Mayor should start thinking of an alternative as building a new city now will take 30 years Grundfos, the world’s largest pump manufacturer […]
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