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Taliban Regime’s Damming of Transboundary Rivers
December 8th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on Afghanistan’s growing need to build dams for its water and power needs, and Pakistan’s opposition to dam building on the Kunar River and its tributaries is due to political rather than technical reasons: Afghanistan suffers from severe water and electricity shortages. This is partly because its geographic location and […]
Read more »Water Crisis in Iran Puts Pressure on Leadership to Find a Viable Solution and Address “Water Mafia”
December 8th, 2025
Via The Soufan Center, commentary on how Iran’s water crisis is pressuring the country’s leadership and bringing more visibility to Iran’s “Water Mafia”: The water crisis in Iran has escalated into a profound political and security problem with supply levels running alarmingly low. This acute emergency is the culmination of decades of flawed policy, overly […]
Read more »Turkmenistan’s Drought Dries Reservoirs
November 26th, 2025
Two reservoirs in western Turkmenistan have fully dried up, according to satellite analysis published by Meteozhurnal, a specialist meteorological outlet. Mammetköl and Delili, small reservoirs in Balkan province fed by the low-water Atrak river, shrank steadily over the past year and had no remaining water by early summer. Meteozhurnal based its findings on time-series imagery […]
Read more »Lake Chad Basin Caught in Brutal Boko Haram-ISWAP Struggle
November 25th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, an article on the fight between Boko Haram and ISWAP for control of the Lake Chad islands: It was cold and quiet around 4am on 7 November, when James (last name withheld) shut the door and led his heavily pregnant wife and their two children, under the age of six, onto […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Ganga Basin ‘Highly Water Stressed’
November 24th, 2025
Via Down to Earth, a report on Asia’s ‘triple threat’ as its 10 major rivers are at risk from escalating climate risks and deepening water stress, says analysis The Ganga river basin is highly water stressed and India must act as the basin houses 45 per cent of the country’s population, accounts for 44 per […]
Read more »Study: Something’s Gotta Give on the Rio Grande
November 21st, 2025
Via The Land Desk, a look at how climate change and overconsumption are drying up the Southwest’s “other” big river: The Colorado River and its woes tend to get all of the attention, but the Southwest’s “other” big river, the Rio Grande, is in even worse shape thanks to a combination of warming temperatures, drought, […]
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