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Challenges of Water Sharing in the Nile Basin: Critical Moments Approaching
June 14th, 2021
Via New Eastern Outlook, an article on the challenges of water sharing in the Nile Basin: Egypt and Sudan are supposed to adhere to a binding agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), even amidst reports that Addis Ababa, for a second year, will fill its reservoir with less water than had previously been […]
Read more »Asia’s Water Stress Will Rise Even As Glaciers Melt And Rain Pours
June 14th, 2021
Via Nature, a report on why water stress will rise in parts of Asia even as glaciers melt and rain pours: By the end of this century, people living along the Indus and Ganges rivers will not have enough water for their needs, even though water flow into the rivers will be larger than it […]
Read more »Common Misconceptions About Water Security
June 10th, 2021
Via Sustainable Waters, commentary on common misconceptions about water security: Seems like every day brings another news story about the water crisis in the Western US. Never in my lifetime have I seen such an intense drought spanning such a wide geographic sweep: from West Texas to the Rio Grande to the Colorado River to […]
Read more »The West Can End the Water Wars Now
June 10th, 2021
Courtesy of The Atlantic, an article on how, while far-right radicals in Southern Oregon are threatening to bust open an irrigation canal, the region could be a model for managing watersheds in a warmer world: In my experience, out here in the West, people are, by and large, aggrieved. This is not entirely their fault. […]
Read more »Egypt Steps Up Action As Threat Of Water Scarcity Looms
June 10th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a report on how Egypt is advancing a number of projects to address the water scarcity problem, at a time that tensions between Cairo and Addis Ababa are on the rise over the failure to reach an agreement on the operation and filling of Ethiopia’s controversial dam on the Blue Nile: Egypt has […]
Read more »Glacial Lake Floods Threaten Pakistan’s Long Term Water Security
June 8th, 2021
Via The Diplomat, an article on how – in addition to the direct damage done to locals – glacial lake flooding also spells disaster for Pakistan’s long-term water security: For the last three years, the arrival of summer has been a nightmare for those who live in the mountainous northern areas of Pakistan. Summer means […]
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