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GERD: Where Does Sudan-Ethiopia Rapprochement Leave Egypt?
April 7th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at how recent Sudan-Ethiopia rapprochement impacts Egypt’s position in the GERD debate: Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed recently visited Sudan for the first time since the 2021 military coup. He met with the Sovereign Council head, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Khartoum, as well as General Hamdan Daglo ‘Hemeti’, […]
Read more »Colorado River Is Running Dry, But Nobody Wants to Talk About the Mud
April 7th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, commentary on how the Colorado River is running dry, but nobody wants to talk about the mud: It’s difficult to fathom how the Colorado River could possibly carve the mile-deep chasm that is the Grand Canyon. But if one thinks of the river as a flume of liquid sandpaper […]
Read more »Granting Rights to Great Salt Lake: A Debate
April 7th, 2023
Via the National Review, commentary against the idea of granting rights to Great Salt Lake: The nature rights movement keeps making inroads into establishment thinking — and people keep ignoring the threat. The concept has now been advocated in a major opinion piece in the New York Times. Utah’s Great Salt Lake is shrinking — a […]
Read more »Great Salt Lake: In Danger Of Disappearing
April 7th, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, commentary on the drought threatening the Great Salt Lake: From a distance, it is hard to tell whether the three figures walking the salt playa are human, bird or some other animal. Through binoculars, I see they are pelicans, juveniles, gaunt and emaciated without water or food. In feathered […]
Read more »Taliban Megaproject Could Leave Central Asian Region Without Water
April 7th, 2023
Via , a report on that Taliban’s mega canal project: In Central Asia, the already complicated issue of transboundary waters has become aggravated again. Afghanistan is actively implementing a project to build a giant Koshtepa canal in Balkh province on the border with Turkmenistan. The start of its construction was announced a year ago, AN Podrobno.uz reports. The […]
Read more »Levels of Iraq’s Tigris and Euphrates Plunge
April 7th, 2023
Via Terra Daily, a report on how levels of Iraq’s Tigris and Euphrates have plunged in the south: Iraq’s Tigris and Euphrates rivers have witnessed a sharp decrease in their levels in the south of the country, officials said Sunday, pledging to take urgent measures to ease water shortages.In Nasiriyah, capital of the southern province […]
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