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Is Diplomacy Running Out On Egypt-Ethiopia Dispute Over Nile Dam?
July 18th, 2020
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at the Grand Renaissance Dam and ongoing regional tensions over the Nile: A general view of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam near Guba, Ethiopia, on Dec. 26, 2019. The filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’s reservoir was not initiated by Ethiopian government action, but rather the alignment […]
Read more »Iraq Faces Severe Shortages As River Flows Drop
July 18th, 2020
Via The Hour, commentary on the impact of Turkish water projects on regional supplies: Iraq’s minister of water resources says his country will face severe water shortages if agreements are not forged with neighboring Turkey over Ankara’s irrigation and dam projects that have decreased river inflows to Iraq’s parched plains. Descending from the mountains of […]
Read more »Why the Nile Constitutes a New Kind of Water Dispute – and Why That’s Dangerous
July 16th, 2020
Via The Center for Climate & Security, an article on the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Ever since workers first broke ground on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, international commenters have fixated on the Nile as a possible harbinger of future ‘water wars’ to come. And almost since then, water experts have […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Is the Mekong River The Next South China Sea?
July 16th, 2020
Via Future Directions International, a report on Chinese intentions towards the Mekong River and mainland southeast Asia: Key Points The Mekong River is one of the most threatened rivers in the world, largely due to the rapid increase in the number of large operational hydropower dams. Most of those dams are located within China and could […]
Read more »Who Owns Groundwater In Water-Stressed Pakistan?
July 14th, 2020
Via Third Pole, a look at two laws recently passed in Pakistan that could radically change how water is managed: Pakistan ranks fourth in the world in terms of annual groundwater abstraction – the amount of water taken from an underground source. This puts it in close competition with larger countries such as India, China and the United […]
Read more »The Bitter Dispute Over Africa’s Largest Dam
July 11th, 2020
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan’s struggle to share water: For Biruk Negafh, as for millions of Ethiopians, the summer rains may bring the climax of a decade’s work. As a high-school student in 2011 he bought 100-birr bonds (then worth $6 each) to help finance the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance […]
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