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The Parched Tiger: Pakistan’s Indus Delta Drying Up Due To Lack Of Adequate Inflow
January 10th, 2023
Via the Technology Times, a report that that Indus deltas are drying up due to the lack of adequate inflow: Delta is a place where the Indus River falls into the Arabian Sea in Kacho Chhan, near Thatta. The Indus is the world’s fifth largest delta, but it has been drying up due to a […]
Read more »A Water War Is Brewing Over the Dwindling Colorado River
January 7th, 2023
Via ProPublica, commentary on the tensions arising from a dwindling Colorado River: On a crisp day this fall I drove southeast from Grand Junction, Colorado, into the Uncompahgre Valley, a rich basin of row crops and hayfields. A snow line hung like a bowl cut around the upper cliffs of the Grand Mesa, while in […]
Read more »Great Salt Lake Will Disappear In 5 Years Without Massive ‘Emergency Rescue’
January 7th, 2023
Via CNN, a report on Great Salt Lake’s dire future: The Great Salt Lake in Utah is facing “unprecedented danger,” experts say, as it has fallen to an alarmingly low level amid a climate change-fueled megadrought that’s tightening its grip in the West. Less than two weeks away from Utah’s 2023 legislative session, nearly three dozen scientists […]
Read more »Low Water Levels Have Created An Energy Crisis At The World’s Largest Dam
January 6th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on the impact that drought is having on Kariba Dam: The water level at the world’s largest man-made dam — which generates hydroelectric power for millions of people in Zambia and Zimbabwe — has dropped to a record low, forcing local energy companies to make drastic cuts. The […]
Read more »Perils of ‘Water Wars’ in Central Asia
December 31st, 2022
Via Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor, commentary on Central Asian water tension: On November 3, Uzbekistani Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov and his Kyrgyzstani counterpart Jeenbek Kulubaev signed a bilateral deal in Bishkek, under which Kyrgyzstan agreed to cede to Tashkent the territory surrounding the Kempir-Abad Reservoir, covering 4,485 hectares, in exchange for over 19,000 hectares […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Between India And China, A River At The Centre Of Power Politics
December 30th, 2022
Via Outlook India , a report on how the border dispute and low levels of trust between China and India have prevented a water-sharing treaty or a more formalized water management system for the Brahmaputra river, of the sort that exists in the Nile, Mekong, or Danube basins: Just a few days after the Chinese […]
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