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The Thirsty Dragon: Does China’s Water Use Threaten Kazakhstan’s Big Lake?
March 19th, 2021
Via the Belt & Road News, a report on China’s impact on the Balkhash basin: Climate change, farming and a lack of Cooperation risk another Aral Sea Disaster. The demise of the Aral Sea is a tragic tale often told. Less known is the peril facing Central Asia’s largest remaining lake, Balkhash in eastern Kazakhstan, […]
Read more »Pakistan Is Slowly Running Out of Water
March 19th, 2021
Via The National Interest, a report on Pakistan’s worsening freshwater scarcity problem: Freshwater is a finite and scarce resource on earth. According to the United Nations, it is feared that as many as 1.8 billion people, especially those living in Asia, will face acute water scarcity by 2025. The increase in per capita demand for water due to rising […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: China’s Escalating Water War Against India
March 18th, 2021
Via Times of India, commentary on how, in addition to other asymmetric tactics, China’s Brahmaputra mega-project is a new threat facing India: China’s multi-pronged unconventional war against India has ranged from cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and furtive territorial encroachments to strategic information warfare and an ongoing village building drive to populate uninhabited but disputed borderlands. Water […]
Read more »Florida-Georgia Water Dispute Returns to Supreme Court
March 14th, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, an article on the Florida-Georgia water dispute: The long-running dispute between Florida and Georgia over water resources reached the U.S. Supreme Court last week. The court will decide whether Georgia must cap its water use from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint basin and allow more water to flow downstream to Florida. The dispute began in […]
Read more »Iran Launches Major Water Transfer Projects
March 14th, 2021
Via Tanim News, an article on Iran’s effort to launch several new major water transfer projects: The Iranian president on Sunday inaugurated five projects to transfer desalinated water from the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman to inland arid provinces. President Hassan Rouhani opened the five water transfer projects via videoconference on Sunday. New pipelines […]
Read more »Could New Mediators Resolve The GERD Dispute?
March 12th, 2021
Via International , an article on how Egypt and Sudan want an international quartet to replace South Africa as mediator of the Nile dam negotiations: With the rainy season approaching, tensions are once again rising among Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the giant Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile, […]
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