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India’s Controversial Afghanistan Dams
August 20th, 2018
Via The Diplomat, an article on how Indian-built dams in Afghanistan are causing trouble with downstream states Iran and Pakistan: India is expected to begin work on the $236 million Shahtoot Dam project on the Kabul River in Afghanistan in the coming weeks. Scheduled to be completed in three years, the dam has evoked concern in […]
Read more »Pakistan Facing Crisis As Water Shortage Worsens
August 17th, 2018
Via the Asia Times, a report on the acute water shortage that has crippled Pakistan’s hydropower generation and affected agriculture amid predictions that Pakistan may run dry by 2025: One of the biggest issues facing Pakistan’s newly-elected government, headed by Imran Khan, is how to manage a massive water crisis that has been looming over […]
Read more »What Happens When Nunavut’s Rapidly Growing Capital City Runs Out Of Water?
August 17th, 2018
Via Maclean’s, an article on a growing water crisis in Canada’s far North: Steel pipes have been driven and the foundation poured for the biggest capital project Iqaluit has ever seen, yet uncertainty hangs in the air about whether construction of the $50-million hotel and conference centre will be halted due to a water shortage. […]
Read more »Utah’s Big Water Grab
August 15th, 2018
Via Outside Magazine, an interesting look at how the retiree oasis of St. George, Utah will explode with growth, turning red rock to bluegrass and slaking its thirst with a new billion-dollar pipeline from the Colorado River: Let us now praise southern Utah! I moved here the high-water spring of 1993, everything I owned in the […]
Read more »Kurdistan and Iraq Working Together To Solve The Region’s Water Crisis
August 15th, 2018
Via SOFREP, an article on efforts by Kurdistan and Iraq to work together to address the region’s water crisis: The water crisis in the country has pushed the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Iraqi central government to unite on the issue. Both entities are cooperating in an effort to find a scientific solution to the […]
Read more »Afghanistan Hit By Worst Drought In Decades
August 14th, 2018
Via Terra Daily, a report on Afghanistan’s severe drought: After his wheat crop failed and wells dried up, Ghulam Abbas sold his animals and joined thousands of other farmers migrating to cities as Afghanistan’s worst drought in living memory ravages the war-torn country. A huge shortfall in snow and rain across much of the country […]
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