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The Bitter Dispute Over Africa’s Largest Dam
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan’s struggle to share water: For Biruk Negafh, as for [...]
The Thirsty Dragon: What If Water Shortages Destabilize China?
Via The Economist, an imagined scenario from 2050 in which the painfully unequal distribution of water in China reawakens intra-regional [...]
In Parched US Southwest, Warm Spring Renews Threat of ‘Megadrought’
Via The New York Times, an article on the US Southwest’s drought concerns: Here at 12,000 feet on the Continental [...]
The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Tensions with China-Pakistan Can Derail India’s Fragile Water Treaties
Via The Print, commentary on how the recent tension with Nepal, misunderstanding with Bhutan and border clash with China show that [...]
Drought Lays Bare Morocco’s Vulnerabilities
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at how drought impacts Morocco: While declining rainfall is a problem across the [...]
The Parched Tiger: Pipe Dreams – Why Interlinking Ken-Betwa Will Not Solve Bundelkhand’s Water Crisis
Via IndiaSpend, a report on Each day, Gulab Singh, a 55-year-old farmer from Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district, asks himself if [...]

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