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Russia Threatens Ukrainian Dam
October 21st, 2022
Via BBC, an article on Russia’s threat to a key reservoir for Ukrainian water: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of preparing to blow up a dam at a hydroelectric plant in southern Ukraine, which would lead to a “large-scale disaster”. In his overnight address he said the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper river […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Dams and Pakistan’s Water Crisis
October 17th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, a report on how Pakistan is being strangled by a chronic water shortage that stands to exacerbate tensions with its giant eastern neighbor, India: Thirteen-year-old Kaneez Sughra, a resident of Pakistan’s Orangi town near Karachi, has a strange problem. Every day, before coming to school, she has a choice to make about […]
Read more »Shasta Lake Helped Water California; Now Its Dryness Is a Threat to the State
October 17th, 2022
Via the Wall Street Journal, a report on California’s largest reservoir is at 33% of capacity due to drought, jeopardizing farmers, cities, small towns and salmon: Few places are more critical to the water supply in California than this immense northern reservoir in the foothills of the Cascade Range. Fed by runoff from 14,163-foot Mount Shasta and other […]
Read more »The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Africa’s Water Tower, Environmental Justice & Infrastructural Power
October 17th, 2022
Via Daedalus, a report on the GERD and its implications on environmental justice: Global environmental imaginaries such as “the climate crisis” and “water wars” dominate the discussion on African states and their predicament in the face of global warming and unmet demands for sustainable livelihoods. I argue that the intersecting challenges of water, energy, and […]
Read more »Water Security in Africa in the Age of Global Climate Change
October 16th, 2022
Courtesy of Daedalus, a look at water security in Africa in the our age of global climate change: This essay explores the multiple ways in which the nexuses between water scarcity and climate change are socially and historically grounded in ordinary people’s lived experiences and are embedded in specific fields of power. Here we specifically […]
Read more »Hydropolitics vs. Human Security: South Africa’s Appropriation of Lesotho’s Highlands Water
October 16th, 2022
Via Daedalus, an academic paper on the hydropolitics that cause the environmental threats related to South Africa’s appropriation of Lesotho’s water to be overlooked: The Lesotho Highlands Water Project, which exports water to South Africa, has enhanced the unequal structural relationship that exists between both states. Lesotho, one of the few countries in the world […]
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