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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 »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 […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Grand Plan for Kashmir Dams
October 15th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, an article on seven new dams India is constructing in the fragile ecology of Indian-administered Kashmir will come at a high human and environmental cost: Until a few years ago, Ghulam Hassan Magray, 36, was living comfortably in his native village, Sewerbatti, located just on the banks of the Chenab River. Magray […]
Read more »Barges Stranded As Mississippi River Water Levels Reach Critical Low
October 15th, 2022
Via The Guardian, a report that barges are stranded as Mississippi River water levels reach critical low: The water in the Mississippi River has dropped so low that barges are getting stuck, leading to expensive dredging and at least one recent traffic jam of more than 2,000 vessels backed up. The Mississippi River Basin produces nearly all […]
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