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Ethiopia’s Mega Dam On Nile ‘Now Complete’: PM
July 4th, 2025
As reported by France24, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday said a multi-billion-dollar mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long worried neighbouring countries is complete and will be officially inaugurated in September: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), launched in 2011 with a $4-billion budget, is considered Africa’s largest hydroelectric project stretching 1.8 […]
Read more »The Indus Treaty Verdict: When Water Outlasts War
July 4th, 2025
Via the Lowy Institute, a look at how a Hague ruling against India’s treaty “abeyance” might stop a precedent that could spread from China to Bangladesh: For more than 60 years, the Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan has stood as one of the few enduring triumphs of postcolonial diplomacy – surviving wars, diplomatic breakdowns, and […]
Read more »India’s Unilateral Halt To Water Treaty: 4 Options Pakistan Can Take
June 29th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, commentary on options that Pakistan can take to take on India’s unilateral decision to halt the Indus Water Treaty: After military clashes between India and Pakistan broke out earlier this month — at more than three days’ duration, making them the most inflamed between the two countries in decades — a ceasefire was agreed on May 10. […]
Read more »For the Future of Water Conservation, Look to … Los Angeles?
June 29th, 2025
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how years of drought forced the city to rethink its water usage and, almost under the radar, to remake its identity. You’ve probably come across more stories about water woes in California than you can recall, so you may feel you’ve had enough for a while. […]
Read more »A Dam(n) Shame: Specter of Dams and Diversion Looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River
June 26th, 2025
Via Mongabay, a look at the specter of dams and diversion that looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River: The Salween River, one of Asia’s last free-flowing rivers, supports Indigenous communities and biodiversity across China, Myanmar and Thailand, but faces threats from at least 20 proposed hydropower dams, mainly in Myanmar. Myanmar’s postcoup instability has stalled […]
Read more »Intensifying Water Shortages in Central Asia will Spark Flood of Immigrants Into Russia
June 25th, 2025
Central Asians who have seen the amount of potable water available to them drop from 8400 cubic meters per capita per year a half century ago to only 2100 now, are certain to flood into the Russian Federation which has more than 20 percent of the world’s reserves of fresh water, Moscow historian Konstantin Menzelintsev […]
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