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Rising Waters, Rising Tensions: Nile Floods Reopen Old Wounds Over Ethiopian Dam
October 6th, 2025
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at how – Ethiopia, viewing the dam as essential for its development, has rejected Egypt’s accusations, stating that regulated water releases have actually mitigated flood damage: Rising waters of the Nile have flooded homes and fields in northern Egypt, forcing residents to evacuate by boat. In the village of Dalhamo, […]
Read more »Thirsty Dragon vs. Parched Tiger: India Plans Its Own Mega Dam To Counter China Water Fears
September 30th, 2025
Via The Frontier Post, a report on Indian plans to build its own mega dam to counter China water fears: On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam — India’s latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water. India says the […]
Read more »How War and Drought Resulted in Lebanon’s Worst Water Crisis in Decades
September 26th, 2025
Via Arab News, a look at how war and drought have resulted in Lebanon’s worst water crisis in decades: With the Litani River drying and Lake Qaraoun at record lows, aid groups warn the crisis could spiral into a nationwide emergency UN agencies say urgent funding is needed to keep Lebanon’s water crisis from triggering […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Himalayan Mega-Dam Is A Global Threat
September 20th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, commentary on China’s planned Himalayan mega-dam – the largest dam ever conceived – symbolizes China’s bid, from oil to water, for 21st-century dominance: China is about to upend the world’s hydrological balance — with consequences as far-reaching as climate change itself. Its $168 billion Himalayan super-dam represents not merely the world’s costliest […]
Read more »The Impossibly Expensive Plan to Save Texas’s Water Supply
September 20th, 2025
Courtesy of Texas Monthly, an article on one potential solution to Texas’s water scarcity crisis: The year is 1969, and revolution is in the air. Protests clog American campuses and streets. Richard Nixon enters the White House on behalf of his “silent majority.” NASA puts men on the moon. And the hippie counterculture threatens to […]
Read more »Inside the Fight for Texas’s Most Precious Resource
September 20th, 2025
Via Texas Monthly, a look at how – in Texas – elected leaders, rich investors, and small-town residents are stumbling over the same question: Who owns the state’s water? I’m riding shotgun in his battle-tested Chevy Suburban, an actual shotgun rubbing against my left leg, when Bob Sanders tells me that it was water that […]
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