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Yarlung Zangbo Dam: The Dawn of Zero-Sum Water Politics in South Asia
August 11th, 2025
Via Geopolitical Monitor, a look at the Yarlung Zangbo Dam and the dawn of zero-sum water politics in South Asia: The Yarlung Zangbo dam project represents a watershed moment in China’s emergence as a hydro-hegemon capable of manipulating water flows across multiple international boundaries for its own strategic advantage. While Beijing frames the initiative as part […]
Read more »How the UAE Is Redefining Global Water Trade By Turning Scarcity Into Strategy
August 7th, 2025
Via Khaleej Times, an article on how – with more than 40% of its potable water derived from desalination – the UAE is one of the world’s most advanced users of non-traditional water sources: Faced with extreme scarcity, the UAE is turning constraint into opportunity, using its logistics muscle, regulatory agility and investment firepower to […]
Read more »The Strategic Ripples of China’s Mega-Dam for Bangladesh
August 7th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at how for Bangladesh, far downstream yet acutely affected, the Medog Hydropower Station highlights its struggles to ensure equitable water-sharing: When Chinese Premier Li Qiang broke ground on the world’s most ambitious dam – the Medog Hydropower Station on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet – global headlines fixated on […]
Read more »People Are Flocking To Florida. Will There Be Enough Water For Them?
August 6th, 2025
Via Grist, a look at how climate change, a development boom, and overexploitation of groundwater are draining the Sunshine State: While wading through wetlands in the headwaters of the Everglades, where tall, serrated grasses shelter alligators and water moccasins, agroecologist Elizabeth Boughton described one of Florida’s biggest environmental problems: There’s either too much water, or […]
Read more »The Gulf’s Trillion-Dollar AI Dream Has A Water Problem
August 6th, 2025
Via Rest of World, a look at how tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital ambitions: The UAE and Saudi Arabia are rapidly expanding their AI infrastructure, attracting tech giants like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. Data centers powering AI in the Gulf are projected to consume […]
Read more »Data and Drought: The U.S. West’s Data Centers Suck Water and Power
August 1st, 2025
Via High Country News, a report on how – from simple searches to chatGPT – the big digital buildup in the U.S. west threatens the grid and water supplies: This May, STaX Capital Partners applied for a permit to install turbines fueled by methane from oil wells on Alaska’s North Slope. The temporary facilities would […]
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