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The Thirsty Dragon: Across Much of China, Huge Harvests Irrigated with Industrial and Agricultural Runoff
January 20th, 2013
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a detailed look at the world’s largest grain producer: The horizon gleams with a golden hue from the wheat fields that spread in all directions here in Shandong, a prime food-growing province on the lower reaches of the Yellow River. As hundreds of farmers spread the wheat like massive carpets […]
Read more »Could Chinese Loans Pull China Into African Water Conflicts?
January 15th, 2013
Via ChinaDialogue, an article on the possibility that Chinese-funded dam and irrigation projects may nurture conflict in Africa: China has made great efforts to support poverty reduction in Africa, and likes to present itself as a friend of the African people. But loans for contentious dam and irrigation projects now threaten to pull China into […]
Read more »Regional Implications Of The Indus Basin Water Tension
January 15th, 2013
Via Pakistan’s Express Tribune, an interesting report on “Pakistan’s stance is simply that it just doesn’t trust India regarding the water issue,†said Feisal Naqvi. He was speaking about the Indus Water Treaty, signed in 1960, at a roundtable, Indus Water Treaty, Trans-boundary Water Issues and Prospects of Peace in South Asia, at the Forman […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Aims To Have Mastery of Asia’s Water Tap by 2020
January 3rd, 2013
Via The Huffington Post, an interesting report on China’s thirst for Asian water in the years ahead: China has a damming programme for six of the world’s great rivers that rise in Tibet – the Indus, Sutlej, Mekong, Brahmaputra, Salween and Yangste – and feed by irrigation an estimated 1.3 billion people. The Mekong whose […]
Read more »The Brahmaputra: Water Hotspot In Himalayan Asia
January 3rd, 2013
Via the Global Water Forum, an interesting article on the Brahmaputra: Analysts around the world increasingly have their eyes on the Brahmaputra River, a transboundary watercourse with headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau of the Himalayan mountain range. The three riparian states sharing the Brahmaputra – China, India, and Bangladesh – are the world’s first, second, […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Coming Water Crisis
January 3rd, 2013
Via Fortune, a report on how dire China’s water stress may become by 2030: After each Presidential election, The National Intelligence Council (NIC), the Washington, D.C., agency that provides long-term strategic analysis to America’s intelligence community, releases a report on security risks. Its newest report, issued on December 10th and called Global Trends 2030: Alternative […]
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