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Australia: Must Embrace Water As A National Security Priority
February 26th, 2021
Courtesy of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, commentary on Australia’s need to embrace water as a national security priority: Hangovers result from a classic human failing: we stop and think only when a problem arises, not when it’s caused. When times are good, we’ve always got room for one more, but come the morning and […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Is China Really Behind A Malicious Plot To Buy Up Australia’s Water?
February 20th, 2021
Via the South China Morning Post, a look at how – as the relationship between Canberra and Beijing sours – distrust of China and concerns about drought and water shortages have fuelled talk that China is buying up Australia’s water sources with malicious intent: In Australia, Earth’s driest inhabited continent, landowning farmers are given water rights that can be traded […]
Read more »Egypt-Ethiopia: Difficult Negotiations
February 20th, 2021
Via Near Eastern Outlook, analysis on the latest round of GERD negotiations: The latest round of Egyptian-Ethiopian negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), brokered by former African Union (AU) president Cyril Ramaphosa, ended without agreement, adding another episode to the chain of failed negotiations. Egypt accused Ethiopia of derailing the GERD negotiations and […]
Read more »Cuba’s Constant Struggle for Clean Water
February 20th, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, an insightful look at Cuba’s struggle for clean water where battling water scarcity requires a vast array of workers, from inspectors and fumigators to truck drivers and pipe layers: In one hand Manuel Reyes Estrada carried a form and a pencil, in the other a bucket filled with small fish and […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Water Crisis
February 17th, 2021
Via Asia & The Pacific Policy forum, an article on India’s water crisis: A blind spot in India’s water governance landscape is costing the country more than a third of its ready-to-use water, Muskan Saxena, Himmat Singh Bakshi, and Eeshan Chaturvedi write. Of the total water available on earth, only around 2.5 per cent is fresh […]
Read more »What Does China’s BRI Mean for Central Asia’s Water Future?
February 15th, 2021
Via Eurasianet, a report that the Belt and Road Initiative could exacerbate Central Asia’s water tensions, and Beijing seems to have thought little about the risks: For Central Asia, China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the biggest infrastructure drive in generations. And like the Soviet mega dams, mines, and devastating cotton monoculture that preceded it, the BRI […]
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