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Ethiopian PM’s Claim About Building 100 New Dams Provokes Egyptian Ire
June 2nd, 2021
Via All Africa, an article on the Ethiopian Prime Minister’s recent claims about building 100 new dams: Egyptian media broadcast an angry statement by Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmed Hafez criticizing Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Ahmed’s declaration about building “100 new small and medium-sized dams” on waterways across his country during the next year. Hafez indicated the […]
Read more »U.S. Southwest, Already Parched, Sees ‘Virtual Water’ Drain Abroad
June 2nd, 2021
Via Undark, an article on how, as the Colorado River Basin enters yet another year of drought, global companies are worsening the water crisis: Driving into southern California’s Palo Verde Valley from the Arizona border, fields of vibrant green appear out of the desert like a mirage. Near the town of Blythe, water from the Colorado […]
Read more »Amid Historic Drought, a New Water War in the West
June 2nd, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on the drought crisis which has erupted in the Klamath Basin along the California-Oregon border, with fish dying en masse and farmers infuriated that they have been cut off from their main water source: Through the marshlands along the Oregon-California border, the federal government a century ago […]
Read more »China’s Construction of World’s Biggest ‘Megadam’ May Be Cover For ‘Hydro Weapon’
June 2nd, 2021
Via the UK’s Daily Mirror, an article on how some consider China’s construction of world’s biggest ‘megadam’ to be a potential cover for a ‘hydro weapon’: India fears a mammoth ‘megadam’ being built in China could be used as a ‘hydro weapon’. The Chinese Communist Party has announced the construction of the world’s biggest dam […]
Read more »Drought is Leading to Instability and Water Weaponization in the Middle East and North Africa
June 2nd, 2021
Via the Center for Climate and Security, commentary on how drought is leading to instability and water weaponization in MENA region: Water stress is a growing problem worldwide. Overuse, population growth, and climate change are contributing to desperate conditions and violent extremist organizations (VEOs) are turning scarce water into a weapon. Nowhere is this trend more […]
Read more »Iran’s Biggest Problem Is Water
June 2nd, 2021
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on how, with supplies running out, water security could be the issue that finally makes the region’s countries work together: Iran is parched. Indeed, this year is expected to be among the driest in the last 50 years. Of the country’s 85 million people, some 28 million people live in water-stressed areas, mostly […]
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