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2B People To Face Water Shortages As Ice On The World’s Highest Mountains Melts
June 15th, 2021
As reported by UNDP, two billion people will face water shortages as ice on the Tibetan plateau melts: Asia’s Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountain ranges could lose up to two thirds of its ice by 2100, causing water and food shortages for over two billion people in the downstream river basins of South and East Asia, according […]
Read more »Sudan: “Open To Conditional Interim Deal On Ethiopia Dam”
June 15th, 2021
Via Reuters, a report that Sudan says it is open to conditional interim deal on Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance dam: Sudan is open to a partial interim agreement on Ethiopia’s multi-billion-dollar dam on the Blue Nile, with specific conditions, Irrigation Minister Yasir Abbas said on Monday. While Ethiopia is pinning its hopes of economic development and power […]
Read more »Challenges of Water Sharing in the Nile Basin: Critical Moments Approaching
June 14th, 2021
Via New Eastern Outlook, an article on the challenges of water sharing in the Nile Basin: Egypt and Sudan are supposed to adhere to a binding agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), even amidst reports that Addis Ababa, for a second year, will fill its reservoir with less water than had previously been […]
Read more »Asia’s Water Stress Will Rise Even As Glaciers Melt And Rain Pours
June 14th, 2021
Via Nature, a report on why water stress will rise in parts of Asia even as glaciers melt and rain pours: By the end of this century, people living along the Indus and Ganges rivers will not have enough water for their needs, even though water flow into the rivers will be larger than it […]
Read more »Common Misconceptions About Water Security
June 10th, 2021
Via Sustainable Waters, commentary on common misconceptions about water security: Seems like every day brings another news story about the water crisis in the Western US. Never in my lifetime have I seen such an intense drought spanning such a wide geographic sweep: from West Texas to the Rio Grande to the Colorado River to […]
Read more »The West Can End the Water Wars Now
June 10th, 2021
Courtesy of The Atlantic, an article on how, while far-right radicals in Southern Oregon are threatening to bust open an irrigation canal, the region could be a model for managing watersheds in a warmer world: In my experience, out here in the West, people are, by and large, aggrieved. This is not entirely their fault. […]
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