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Multiple Climate Reports Warn of Water Conflict in South Asia
December 22nd, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a report on South Asia, a region is expected to suffer the most significant impacts of changing water availability this century: At the 28th edition of the World Climate Summit (COP28) in Dubai, Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal made a strong pitch for immediate implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Despite near-zero contribution […]
Read more »Key Climate Battle: Saving Himalayan Ice
December 19th, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at how – from Afghanistan to China – vanishing glaciers risk floods and drought for billions: Filmmaker and environmental activist Jamyang Jamtscho Wangchuk brought a bit of his beloved Himalayas to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai last week. Around 250 milliliters of it, to be precise. In a plastic […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Gargantuan Mission to Clean the Ganges River
November 30th, 2023
Via Wired, an article on India’s efforts to restore the Ganges river, one of the world’s most sacred waterways—and one of its most polluted: IN THE MORNINGS in Varanasi, the air on the banks of the Ganges fills with the scent of burning bodies. On the steps of the Manikarnika ghat—the holiest of the city’s stepped riverbanks, […]
Read more »Water Rights and Global Conflict in 2023
November 23rd, 2023
Via The Business Year, a look at water rights and global conflict in 2023: We once again find ourselves in troubled times as the year 2023 is coming to a close. The war in Ukraine has been raging for over 600 days, without any prospects for peace on the horizon. Meanwhile, the latest resurfacing of […]
Read more »In A Thirsty World, ‘Luxury Water’ Becomes Fashionable Among The Elite
November 22nd, 2023
Courtesy of AP News, a look at how – as more of the world thirsts – luxury water is becoming fashionable among the elite: Monsoon rains have finally passed and floods blocking the lone dirt road have retreated enough for a small truck to climb these Himalayan foothills to a gurgling spring. It spews water […]
Read more »‘Staggering’ 347 Million Children Facing Water Scarcity in South Asia: UN
November 15th, 2023
Via Al Jazeera, a sobering report on a new UN study indicating that 347 million children face water scarcity in South Asia: More children in South Asia are struggling due to severe water scarcity made worse by the effects of climate change than anywhere else worldwide, the United Nations says. “A staggering 347 million children […]
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