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Are We Inching Towards Actual Violence Over Access to Water?
June 8th, 2021
Via Esquire, commentary on water stress in the southwest USA: Here at the shebeen, one of the larger elements in our portfolio is water—specifically, the increasing political salience of water, especially in the West, where they are experiencing such profound drought conditions that the Hoover Dam, of all things, is losing its reason for being. […]
Read more »The Emirates and Israel Partner On Water Research
June 7th, 2021
Via Green Prophet, an article on a new water alliance in the Middle East: A first-of-its-kind agreement was signed in Abu Dhabi on June 1 to launch a joint Israeli-Emirati Water Research Institute. We predicted all these wonderful new water alliances after peace between Israel and the UAE was forged. The new water research institute is […]
Read more »Tajikistan Shares Irrigation Water With Kazakhstan
June 7th, 2021
Via EurasiaNet, a report on Tajikistan’s agreement to divert 315 million cubic meters to help Kazakhstan avoid a summer of drought: Geopolitical analysts routinely point to Central Asia as a likely potential flashpoint for conflicts over water resources, but one fresh development is serving to show how more virtuous scenarios are also possible. This week, the […]
Read more »An Emerging Nile Basin Security Organization
June 5th, 2021
Via Eurasia Review, an article on an emerging Nile Basin Security Organization: Egypt is taking a central role in the design of what may become a “Nile River security organization” or similar body to enforce freedom of water use. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is creating not only a regional grouping around the perennial issue […]
Read more »‘Water Grabbing’ On The Mekong
June 5th, 2021
Via Eurasia Review, a look at what some refer to as ‘water grabbing’ on the Mekong: As dam-building projects continue to proliferate along Southeast Asia’s vital Mekong River, experts in a recent online discussion panel agreed that the area is fast becoming overloaded with them, dredging up far-reaching issues ranging from international friction and industry […]
Read more »Drought Spreads In US Northwest
June 5th, 2021
Via NPR, an article on growing impact of drought in the US northwest: Nicole Berg’s stunted wheat field is so short and sparse she doesn’t think the combine can even reach the wheat without, as she puts it, eating rocks. “Combines don’t like dirt and rocks,” Berg says, standing amid the damaged rows. “They get […]
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