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Egypt-Sudan Spat Muddies Prospects for Deal on Nile Dam
January 11th, 2018
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how talks are stalled over how to deal with the impact of a $5 billion dam that could threaten Egypt’s lifeblood: A diplomatic spat between Egypt and Sudan is spilling over into the long-running dispute over a dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile River, which Cairo sees as […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Flexes Its Control On The Mekong
January 11th, 2018
Via The Asia Times, an article on how the recent Mekong-Lancang Cooperation summit did more to facilitate Beijing’s economic penetration than address the waterway’s many problems: Was it truly worth Chinese Premier Li Keqiang traveling all the way to Phnom Penh for the second Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC) summit? As the MLC leaders’ meeting closed on Wednesday, […]
Read more »Egypt: Building Huge Water Treatment Plant Amid Supply Concerns
January 9th, 2018
Via Terra Daily, a report on Egypt’s plan to build a major water treatment and desalination plant: Egypt is building a major water treatment and desalination plant, the president said Monday, as the Nile-dependent nation plans for any fallout from an upstream dam being built by Ethiopia. The North African country is constructing “the largest […]
Read more »Poisonous and Running Out: Pakistan’s Water Crisis
January 9th, 2018
Via Terra Daily, a report on Pakistan’s water crisis: Barely 15 days old, Kinza whimpers at an Islamabad hospital where she is suffering from diarrhoea and a blood infection, a tiny victim among thousands afflicted by Pakistan’s severely polluted and decreasing water supplies. Cloaked in a colourful blanket, Kinza moves in slow motion, like a […]
Read more »On Florida’s ‘Forgotten Coast,’ A Supreme Court Fight Over Fresh Water
January 8th, 2018
Via The Washington Post, an article on the dispute over the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin, which drains roughly 19,600 square miles in parts of Georgia, Florida and Alabama: Every 45 seconds or so, oystermen plunge their long-handled tongs into the shallow blue-gray waters of Apalachicola Bay, rake the bottom and deposit meager-looking piles on the bow of […]
Read more »Egypt Wants ‘Sudan Out’ of Contentious Dam Talks
January 3rd, 2018
Via Al Jazeera, a report on the increasingly contentious talks over the Nile and the Grand Renaissance Dam: Egypt has proposed excluding Sudan from contentious negotiations over the future of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the largest hydroelectric dam project in Africa, according to an Ethiopian newspaper. The Egyptian proposal, sent by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to Hailemariam Desalegn, Ethiopia’s prime […]
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