BLOG
Afghanistan and Pakistan’s Looming Water Conflict
December 15th, 2018
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on how, for Afghanistan, the Kabul River is far more than a tool of coercive diplomacy against Pakistan: From the Mayan Empire to modern-day Syria and Yemen, water insecurity has been a predominant cause of social distress, conflict, and crisis. Studies show that there is a 75 to 95 percent probability […]
Read more »Iran’s Water Crisis Causes Discontent in the Provinces
December 12th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, a look at the impact of Iran’s water crisis in its provinces: Unrest related to the ongoing water scarcity crisis has flared up again in Iran, with water pipelines reportedly sabotaged by farmers in the central Iranian province of Isfahan. The pipelines divert water from that province to neighbouring Yazd province, which farmers […]
Read more »Asia’s Water Challenges
December 12th, 2018
Via China Water Risk, an excellent graphical look at Asia’s water scarcity challenge:
Read more »California’s Water Wars
December 10th, 2018
Courtesy of The Economist, an article on California’s water wars: The federal government and the state of California seem to love suing each other, and have done so dozens of times in the past two years without causing anyone much damage. But President Donald Trump is now threatening to sue the state over control of water. […]
Read more »Tehran: Over-Extraction of Water Threatens Iranian Capital
December 7th, 2018
Via EurekAlert, a look at Tehran’s water scarcity crisis: Iran has a water problem. The reserves in many groundwater basins there have been severely depleted. For the last forty years, the country has invested a lot in the agricultural sector and has been striving to be independent in its food supply. In order to cover […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Groundwater Scarcity, Pollution Set India on Perilous Course
December 7th, 2018
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a detailed report on how drained and contaminated aquifers contribute to India’s “worst water crisis: Doula Village lies 55 kilometers (34 miles) northeast of New Delhi on a flat expanse of Uttar Pradesh farmland close to the Hindon River. Until the 1980s Doula Village’s residents, then numbering 7,000, and its […]
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