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Iran Launches Major Water Transfer Projects
March 14th, 2021
Via Tanim News, an article on Iran’s effort to launch several new major water transfer projects: The Iranian president on Sunday inaugurated five projects to transfer desalinated water from the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman to inland arid provinces. President Hassan Rouhani opened the five water transfer projects via videoconference on Sunday. New pipelines […]
Read more »Could New Mediators Resolve The GERD Dispute?
March 12th, 2021
Via International , an article on how Egypt and Sudan want an international quartet to replace South Africa as mediator of the Nile dam negotiations: With the rainy season approaching, tensions are once again rising among Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the giant Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile, […]
Read more »Egypt, Sudan Coordinate Positions In Nile Dam Dispute
March 12th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, an article on how Egypt and Sudan are currently increasing coordination on the issue the controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile River: A few days after Egypt and Sudan signed a military cooperation agreement March 2, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi visited Khartoum March 6, in a move that carried political and security messages against Ethiopia’s […]
Read more »Sisi: Egypt, Sudan Rejection of Ethiopia Nile Dam ‘Fait Accompli’
March 8th, 2021
Via Terra Daily, a report on the latest status of negotiations around the Grand Renaissance Dam: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Saturday against Ethiopia continuing to fill its Nile dam, on his first visit to Sudan since the ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir nearly two years ago. Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia have been […]
Read more »In Drying Colorado River Basin, Indian Tribes Are Water Dealmakers
March 4th, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, a look at how native Americans – who hold 20 percent of the basin’s water rights – will shape the future of the Southwest: Mired in drought and torched by one of the hottest years ever measured, the seven states of the Colorado River Basin are acutely aware of how a […]
Read more »The Cost of Pakistan’s Dam Obsession
March 4th, 2021
Via The Diplomat, a report on Pakistan’s water woes, and its inclination to address such via dams which carry steep costs – literally and figuratively: In August 2018, seated behind a large desk and looking straight into the camera for his inaugural address, Prime Minister Imran Khan declared that building dams was the only way […]
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