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In Afghanistan, Villagers are Fleeing Not Just War But Drought
September 29th, 2018
Via The Washington Post, an article on Afghanistan’s water crisis: Between a sandy cliff and cracked riverbed on the edge of this small provincial capital, 380 families are camped in a cluster of hand-sewn, sun-bleached tents, waiting for rain and peace to let them return to their ancestral villages. But across drought-stricken, war-torn Badghis province […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Ganges Running Out Of Water
September 21st, 2018
Via Asia Times, a report on how groundwater input to the Ganges River has declined by 50% during the summer over recent decades, a dwindling flow that could severely affect the availability of water for irrigation and cause potential declines in food production: A study forecasts that in the absence of interventions, groundwater contribution to Ganga […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Delhi’s Plan to Overcome Polluted Water Supplies
September 12th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, a report on Delhi’s plan to overcome polluted and increasingly scarce water supplies: Delhi, the land-locked capital of India, is facing acute water shortages that have sparked several protests in recent months. Delhi has little access to freshwater and gets its main supplies from a river controlled by neighbouring cities. This, […]
Read more »As Andean Glaciers Retreat, So Does Regional Security
September 12th, 2018
Via the Wilson Center’s New Security Beat, a look at the impact retreating glaciers is having upon water – and overall – security in South America: Last month, Bolivia filed a counterclaim against Chile in the International Court of Justice—the latest salvo in their battle over rights to the waters of the Silala River. The court will decide […]
Read more »With Aral’s Death Irreversible, Central Asian Leaders Shift Focus to Setting a Market Price for Water
September 3rd, 2018
Via Window on Eurasia, a report on discussions of water sharing and use in Central Asia: For most of the past 25 years, the issue of saving the Aral Sea has dominated all discussions of water sharing and use in Central Asia. But now that the death of that sea has become irreversible, the leaders of […]
Read more »Iraq and Iran Dam Co-operation Could Signal Positive Change, but Long-Term Solutions are Necessary to Solve the Water Crisis
August 29th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, a look at positive signals of cooperation between Iraq and Iran over water: On 25 July, the Iraqi Minister of Transport, Kazem Finjan al-Hamami announced that Iran has agreed to co-operate on the construction of a new dam on the Shatt al-Arab River. The move has come as Iraq has sought measures to […]
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