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The Ramifications Of Water Scarcity In Central Asia
August 17th, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), some commentary on the ramifications of water scarcity in Central Asia: Lauren Goodrich: Hello, my name is Lauren Goodrich, and I’m the senior Eurasia analyst here at Stratfor. I’m joined by Rebecca Keller, Stratfor’s science and technology analyst. So Rebecca, we have been talking for years about Central Asia. Central Asia […]
Read more »Iraq Faces Escalating Water Crisis
August 12th, 2015
Via Future Directions International, a report on Iraq’s water crisis: Background Widespread power and water shortages in Iraq have triggered protests across Iraq, causing Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to warn of growing revolutionary sentiments if the government fails to find quick solutions. Ongoing conflict and violence since the US-led invasion in 2003 has hampered efforts to re-develop […]
Read more »Using Water As A Weapon In Syria
August 11th, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at the use of water as a weapon in Syria: Years of vicious warfare and a lack of investment and maintenance have taken a severe toll on water infrastructure across Syria. The conflict’s scale made it inevitable that piped water would either be intermittent or simply unavailable across […]
Read more »Brazilian Army: Training For A Water Uprising
August 9th, 2015
Via TechInsider, a sobering article on how Brazil’s water crisis is so bad that the army is staging simulations of a mass uprising at a water utility: Here’s a scenario that seems plausible enough: The Brazilian megacity of São Paulo, currently dealing with Brazil’s largest water crisis in 40 years, continues to experience severe drought over the next several […]
Read more »Egypt: When Taps Go Dry, Little Recourse Except A Ruthless Black Market
August 4th, 2015
Via The Guardian, a sobering report on Egypt, a nation that the UN says will face ‘absolute water scarcity’ by 2025, but for some villages the catastrophe has already arrived: On a blazing hot summer day, rumours that the water truck is finally arriving spread like wildfire through the village of Ezbit al-Taweel. In minutes, some […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Indo-Bhutan Hydro Relations
July 31st, 2015
Via Eurasia Review, a detailed look at hydro relations between India and Bhutan: One strand of the debate on non-traditional security issues is that future wars will be fought over water. History stands evident of the fact that since the beginning of human civilization man has been settling beside rivers and many of the mighty […]
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