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Cape Town’s Stark Water Divide
March 15th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on South Africa’s stark water divide: On Cape Town’s beaches, swimmers shower off sand from their feet. Irrigation pipes water the region’s famed vineyards. And Shadrack Mogress fumes as he fills a barrel with water so he can flush his toilet. It’s been four years since South Africa’s tourist capital […]
Read more »Hydropolitics in the Russian – Ukrainian Conflict
March 13th, 2022
Via the Wilson Center’s New Security Beat, a report on the hydropolitics in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: It’s telling that one of the first actions that Russian forces took in their invasion of Ukraine was to blow up a dam on the North Crimean Canal (NCC), allowing water to flow back into Crimea. The current war being waged […]
Read more »Syria’s Water Crisis Is Not Going Away
March 13th, 2022
Via The Atlantic Council, a look at Syria’s water crisis: In May 2021, the flow of the Euphrates River in northeast Syria fell to an all-time low, causing the worst drought since 1953. Months later, in September 2021, Hammoud al-Hamadin, an engineer at the Tishreen dam, located southeast of Mambij in Aleppo province, warned of a historic and […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Chinese Lithium Find In Himalayas Raises Alarm Over Water
March 9th, 2022
Via EcoBusiness, an article on the potential hydro implications of recent Chinese claim of having found a “super large” deposit of lithium near Mount Everest: The recent discovery near Mount Everest of “super large” deposits of lithium, the key element in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has raised concerns over the fate of water resources in the region. […]
Read more »Can Indus Water Treaty be Renegotiated?
March 9th, 2022
Via Focus Global, commentary on the Indus Water Treaty: It is a happy augury that a 10-member Indian Delegation is currently visiting Pakistan from March 1-3 to take part in the annual meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission, under the leadership of P.K. Saxena, Indian Commissioner for Indus Waters. In 2021, a delegation from Pakistan […]
Read more »Lake Powell Is In Big Trouble
March 9th, 2022
Via Gizmodo, an article on how Lake Powell, a crucial reservoir is set to hit a worrisome new low this month, after an exceptionally dry winter: One of the U.S. West’s most important water reservoirs is about to hit a new low. Lake Powell, on the border of Utah and Arizona, is a crucial reservoir along the Colorado […]
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