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Preventing Conflicts over Transboundary Dams
January 11th, 2025
Via International Water Power and Dam Construction, an article on how the planning, development, and management of dams in transboundary basins needs to be governed in an effective and cooperative manner to ensure limited negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts, and the mitigation of any potential conflict. The construction of dams within transboundary basins can lead […]
Read more »Climate Change—and Complacency—Is Drying Up the Caspian Sea
January 11th, 2025
Via World Politics Review, a look at how climate change – and complacency – is drying up the Caspian Sea: The Caspian Sea is a geographical marvel and a critical resource for the five countries—Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan—that border it. But the future of the world’s largest enclosed inland body of water is […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: India’s Response to World’s Largest Dam in China Faces Local Opposition
January 9th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at India’s response to world’s largest dam in China: Strong protests have erupted in the Indian border state of Arunachal Pradesh against a proposed “multi-purpose project” envisioned as the country’s response to China’s plan to construct the world’s largest dam in Tibet on the same river. India plans to build […]
Read more »The Drought That Felled Assad
January 9th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy in Focus, commentary on the impact that drought played in Syria’s recent revolution: The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ended up undoing the Assad regime in Syria and forcing Bashar al-Assad to flee to Moscow under […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: US National Security Adviser To Discuss Chinese Dams In India Visit
January 9th, 2025
Via Reuters, an article on US interest in China’s recently announced dam project: U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan’s visit to New Delhi from Jan. 5-6 is expected to include discussions with Indian counterparts about the impact of Chinese dams, a senior U.S. official said late on Friday. Washington and its Western allies have long […]
Read more »Saving the Great Salt Lake by Rebalancing Its Water Budget
January 9th, 2025
Via Sustainable Waters, commentary on a new approach to save Great Salt Lake: In recent years I’ve had the great fortune to be able to work with some amazing teams of researchers to explore the causes of water scarcity across many geographies, including the Colorado River, the Rio Grande, the Western US, and around the globe. Importantly, we’ve gone […]
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