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COP27 Brings GERD Debate Back To The Table
October 22nd, 2022
Via The Reporter, an article on how COP27 – held in Egypt – will bring the GERD debate back to the forefront: An excerpt from the joint statement issued by the European Union (EU) and Egypt during their ninth Association Council meeting held in Luxembourg in June of last year reveals the EU’s position on […]
Read more »USG Paying Farmers and First Nations To Conserve Water
October 21st, 2022
Via Arizona Central, an article on U.S. government efforts to pay users to leave water in Lake Mead: The Gila River Indian Community is the first Arizona water rights holder to publicly pursue the federal government’s new offer of compensation to leave Colorado River water in Lake Mead. Tribal Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis announced the […]
Read more »Russia Threatens Ukrainian Dam
October 21st, 2022
Via BBC, an article on Russia’s threat to a key reservoir for Ukrainian water: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of preparing to blow up a dam at a hydroelectric plant in southern Ukraine, which would lead to a “large-scale disaster”. In his overnight address he said the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper river […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Dams and Pakistan’s Water Crisis
October 17th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, a report on how Pakistan is being strangled by a chronic water shortage that stands to exacerbate tensions with its giant eastern neighbor, India: Thirteen-year-old Kaneez Sughra, a resident of Pakistan’s Orangi town near Karachi, has a strange problem. Every day, before coming to school, she has a choice to make about […]
Read more »Hydropolitics vs. Human Security: South Africa’s Appropriation of Lesotho’s Highlands Water
October 16th, 2022
Via Daedalus, an academic paper on the hydropolitics that cause the environmental threats related to South Africa’s appropriation of Lesotho’s water to be overlooked: The Lesotho Highlands Water Project, which exports water to South Africa, has enhanced the unequal structural relationship that exists between both states. Lesotho, one of the few countries in the world […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Grand Plan for Kashmir Dams
October 15th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, an article on seven new dams India is constructing in the fragile ecology of Indian-administered Kashmir will come at a high human and environmental cost: Until a few years ago, Ghulam Hassan Magray, 36, was living comfortably in his native village, Sewerbatti, located just on the banks of the Chenab River. Magray […]
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