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The Case For Canada Selling Its Water
January 15th, 2016
Via Corporate Knights, commentary on the potential for Canada to sell its water: If you want to see water start a fire, suggest to a Canadian that their country should consider selling any of its very large water reserves – a fifth of all the Earth’s standing surface freshwater, and seven per cent of the […]
Read more »Boiling Over: Water And Security Hot Spots 2016
January 13th, 2016
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting look at 10 places where water issues could undermine civic stability: After five years of civil war, the humanitarian crisis in Syria has reached massive proportions: More than 4.6 million people have fled the country as refugees, and at least 7.6 million more are internally displaced within Syria, […]
Read more »Ganges Dam Project Stumbles On Indian-Bangladeshi Dispute
January 13th, 2016
Via Trust.org, a report on tensions arising from Bangladesh’s plan to build a dam on the Ganges River: Bangladesh’s plan to build a dam on the Ganges River to ease water shortages in its southwest coastal region hangs in the balance as neighbouring India has yet to accept the plan. Bangladesh started work on the […]
Read more »Farmers Try Political Force To Twist Open California’s Taps
January 1st, 2016
Via The New York Times, a detailed look at how farmers are using political force to obtain more water for their fields: The message that Maria L. Gutierrez gave legislators on Capitol Hill was anguished and blunt: California’s historic drought had not merely left farmland idle. It had destroyed Latino farm workers’ jobs, shuttered Latino […]
Read more »Ethiopia Makes Progress On The Nile Dam Project
December 31st, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an updated look at the Grand Renaissance Dam project: The construction site of the Grand Renaissance Dam near the Sudanese-Ethiopia border March 31. Summary By learning how to cooperate, Ethiopia may be one step closer to realizing its dream of finishing construction on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. On Dec. 29, […]
Read more »Parched Tiger: At The Mercy Of The Water Mafia
December 25th, 2015
Courtesy Foreign Policy, a sobering look at the how – by pumping wells in the dark of night – criminal bosses rule the liquid economy in one of the world’s busiest cities: Down by the sandy banks of the Yamuna River, the men must work quickly. At a little past 12 a.m. one humid night […]
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