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Will the Mekong River Really Become the Next South China Sea?
October 5th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, a look – amid competition between China and the U.S. – at how the question of the river’s fate has been imbued with a strategic undercurrent: In recent years, the fate of Southeast Asia’s great river – the Mekong – has attracted growing international scrutiny. The Mekong faces many challenges, from the […]
Read more »As Himalayan Glaciers Melt, A Water Crisis Looms In South Asia
October 4th, 2022
Via Yale e360, a look at how – as warmer air is thinning most of the vast mountain range’s glaciers, known as the Third Pole because they contain so much ice – the melting could have far-reaching consequences for flood risk and for water security for a billion people who rely on meltwater for their […]
Read more »Climate Change To Bring Enhanced Droughts Worldwide
October 1st, 2022
Via WaterWorld, an article on a new study from the University of East Anglia which estimates that rising global temperatures will increase the length and spread of major droughts for India, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Brazil, and Egypt: New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) finds that rising global temperatures will bring significant risks of more frequent […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Biggest Lake Declares Drought ‘Red Alert’
September 27th, 2022
Via Reuters, an article on how China’s biggest lake has declared ‘red alert’ as the nation’s long drought lingers: The central Chinese province of Jiangxi has declared a water supply “red alert” for the first time after the Poyang freshwater lake, the country’s biggest, dwindled to a record low, the Jiangxi government said on Friday. The […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Extreme Summer Affecting China’s Water, Food, and Energy Security
September 26th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, a report on how climate shocks are impacting China’s energy, water, and food security ambitions, as well as, new resistance towards the western route of the south-north water transfer: This summer has been China’s driest and hottest since consistent records began being kept in 1961. The severe heatwave resulted in and continues to exacerbate […]
Read more »Are ‘Water Wars’ Coming to Asia?
September 17th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, a look at how climate change-induced water loss in the Tibetan Plateau further challenges water security from Central to Southeast Asia: A recently published study by a team of scientists from the University of Texas in Austin, Penn State, and Tsinghua University in Nature climate change journal found that terrestrial water storage (TWS) in the Qinghai-Tibet […]
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