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The Thirsty Dragon: What’s Driving China’s Mega Medog Hydropower Project?
February 7th, 2026
Via The Diplomat, a look at how energy security, frontier development, technological ambition, and geopolitical calculation are increasingly intertwined in China’s hydro infrastructure strategy: China’s most ambitious hydropower project to date officially entered the construction phase on July 19, 2025, when Premier Li Qiang presided over a groundbreaking ceremony in Nyingchi City in the Tibet Autonomous Region […]
Read more »Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack
February 7th, 2026
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how – with another federal deadline only weeks away and record-low snowfall further drying out the watershed – states have begun talking about whether they are prepared for litigation: Time and water are running low on the Colorado River. Amid one of the driest winters on record, representatives […]
Read more »Securing Africa’s Future Water Needs
February 5th, 2026
Via the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a report on Africa’s future water needs: Africa’s water systems are in crisis. From the Sahel to South Africa, 845 million people lack safely managed drinking water, and over 900 million do not have access to safely managed sanitation services. The consequences of this water insecurity […]
Read more »Western U.S. Cities Open Wallets in Quest for Water
February 5th, 2026
Via Circle of Blue, a look at how waning supply, drought risk, and population growth are pushing cities in the American West to seek new water sources: Little more than two months ago, on an unusually rainy November evening, the Queen Creek Town Council staked claim to the city’s future. Queen Creek, located in central […]
Read more »Water Cooperation is Under Threat
February 3rd, 2026
Via the Stimson Center’s New Security Beat, a look at how global water cooperation is under threat: Rivers, lakes, and aquifers ignore borders and politics, binding countries, people, and ecosystems together. This shared reality has long required cooperation, even among states divided by tensions or conflict. Through technical dialogue, data sharing, and joint institutions, countries […]
Read more »Fate of Colorado River Hangs In Balance As Political Battle Brews
February 3rd, 2026
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on how the fight over the dwindling Colorado River has long been nonpartisan, but now an unprecedented meeting of governors over the issue raises the political stakes: For a life-sustaining natural resource relied on by tens of millions of people and fought over by seven states and two […]
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