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Ethiopia & Kenya: At The Forefront of the Coming Water Crisis
October 2nd, 2008
Earlier this year (but just discovered now), the Common Language Project explored issues from Ethiopia and Kenya, two countries at the forefront of the world’s coming water crisis. And, as the article notes, the liquid that fuels bodies is becoming even more contentious than the liquid that fuels cars in East Africa: “…As you may […]
Read more »Water Wars Forthcoming?
August 29th, 2008
Several recent articles from the UK with opinions on how wars of the next few decades could be fought over access to water, according to some analysts. First, The View offered a look at the British government’s response to a recent WWF call to action on water issues: “…Countries need to act quickly to resolve […]
Read more »Lake Victoria Woes
July 4th, 2008
Via The San Francisco Chronicle, further news of the severe problems besetting Africa’s Lake Victoria and the potential political ramifications that may arise. As the article notes, receding waters have raised tensions between the lake’s three neighboring countries: “…Lake Victoria, the world’s largest tropical lake at 26,560 square miles and the second-largest freshwater lake in […]
Read more »Water Politics in the Horn of Africa & The Rest of the Continent
February 6th, 2008
Our recent post related to Lake Victoria encouraged us to look more closely at water politics in the Horn of Africa, and we came across this interesting analysis of the Jubba and Shabelle river basins which are located in this water scarce region also fraught with recurrent droughts, devastating floods, a growing population, interlocking conflicts, […]
Read more »New Threat To Lake Victoria: Need for Improved Multiparty Lakeshore Management
February 3rd, 2008
As noted in Terra Daily, two hydroelectricity dams appear to be threatening the health of Lake Victoria – and of the people living along its shores who depend on the lake for food. A new study suggests that the dams’ systematic overuse of water has decreased the lake level by at least two meters between […]
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