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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 […]
Read more »Experts: Slash Colorado River Consumption ASAP To Avoid Crisis
September 16th, 2025
The deadline is rapidly approaching for the Colorado River Basin states to come up with a plan for divvying up the river’s waters and operating its reservoirs and other plumbing infrastructure after 2026. But a recent report warns that even if the states do make the November deadline — and it’s looking more and more […]
Read more »Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal and the Paradox of Central Asian Water Politics
September 11th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal which – for Afghanistan – is a symbol of sovereignty and hope. For its neighbors, it is a looming ecological and economic crisis. As climate change accelerates and water resources in Central Asia continue to shrink, the construction of the massive Qosh Tepa Canal in […]
Read more »Egypt Girds Itself for the GERD
September 10th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how Egypt is responding to its lost of majority control of the Nile River: Ethiopia opened Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, ending Egypt’s majority control of the Nile River. The controversial $5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which took 14 years to build, aims to double Ethiopia’s power generation […]
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