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The Thirsty Dragon’s Thirsty Games
Via Forbes, another article detailing how residents of China’s barren northern villages, still gasping from the effects of a severe [...]
World Water Use
Via Forbes, an insightful map in which the size of each nation is distorted to illustrate its respective total annual [...]
Shrinking Lake Chad
Via National Geographic, dramatic satellite images from 1972 (left) and 2007 (right) which show the water-level decline in Lake Chad, [...]
Central Asia: Water Tensions Soon To Boil Over?
From Radio Free Europe, a detailed look at how age-old water problems are bringing tensions to a boil in Central [...]
Turkmenistan’s Lake in the Desert: A Modern Day Mirage?
Via Aquadoc, a report that Turkmenistan is proceeding with its grand scheme to create a lake in a desert located [...]
Central Asia’s Water Challenges: Uzbekistan’s Legacy of Salt
Via The New York Times, an interesting article detailing the destructive environmental and human legacy left behind  in Uzbekistan, a [...]

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