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The Parched Tiger: A $23 Billion Stock Drop Shows India’s Rising Water Risks
June 18th, 2015
Via Bloomberg, an interesting article on rising economic concerns that half of India faces potential surface-water supply disruptions: Few expected India’s science minister to cut the monsoon outlook as he unveiled a weather forecasting system on June 2. The surprise contributed to a 1.5-trillion-rupee ($23 billion) two-day slump in the nation’s equities. The rupee also slid […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: The Ganges Water Crisis
June 17th, 2015
Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting OpEd examining the plight of India’s Ganges river: In April, to offset a prolonged drought in California, Governor Jerry Brown introduced water restrictions for the state’s 39 million residents. Now imagine a water crisis like this affecting some 200 million people in an area smaller than California. […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Groundwater Plummets In Indian Cities
April 7th, 2015
An interesting look, via the New Indian Express, at the impending groundwater crisis facing many Indian cities: As summer peaks, Hyderabadis are once again turning to borewells, plumbing new depths, to extract groundwater. But, chances of finding the elixir of life are bleak — the latest data of the groundwater department of Hyderabad and Rangareddy […]
Read more »South Asia: Running Out Of Groundwater
March 27th, 2015
Via SciDev, a summary of the recent UN World Water Development Report (WWDR 2015), Water for a Sustainable World 2015, which notes the following: South Asia and China account for nearly half of the world’s groundwater use Per capita water availability in South Asia has been dropping dramatically Continued groundwater extraction will deepen the water crisis in […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Food, Water, Energy Conundrum (2)
March 26th, 2015
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, part two of an interesting look at India’s food, water, and energy challenge: The good news is that India’s government has started to shift its priorities in terms of how it manages the country’s economy and natural resources. Some changes are visible on the ground: Renewable energy is gaining traction […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Food, Water, Energy Conundrum
March 26th, 2015
Via Circle of Blue, a report on some of the sources of India’s food, water, and energy challenge: For two years, the Wilson Center and Circle of Blue have explored the contest for food, water, and energy in India and the troubling ways it plays out across the country. The Yamuna River, a tributary of the Ganga. We […]
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