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Sin City Water Grab Pits Mammon Against Mormons As U.S. West Dries Up
March 12th, 2015
Via AgWeb, an article on water tensions in the U.S. southwest: It’s Mammon versus Mormon as Las Vegas and its glittering towers of glass and greed seek to quench their growing thirst by draining billions of gallons of water from under the feet of ranchers whose cattle help feed the church’s poor. The biblical battle […]
Read more »Iran: Beset by Water Woes From Wetlands to Afghan Border
March 11th, 2015
Via Bloomberg, a look at the western Afghan – eastern Iran water crisis: Aziz Sabouri was 10 when he started herding cattle along the shores of the Hamoun Lakes by the Afghan border in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province. Now 80, his face craggy with deep lines, Sabouri stands in the middle of a vast tract […]
Read more »South Africa: And There Is The Water Crisis
March 10th, 2015
Several articles on South Africa’s water challenge. The first, via Business Day, offers some commentary on South Africa problems: ON FEBRUARY 7 and 8, maintenance was scheduled on the Eikenhof Pump Station, one of Rand Water’s satellite booster pumping stations for water extracted from the Vaal Dam, which forms part of the Johannesburg water network. This […]
Read more »Nile Dam Talks: Preliminary Agreement
March 6th, 2015
Via Reuters, a report on the three-party discussions over the Renaissance Dam: The three main countries that share the Nile River’s waters have reached a preliminary agreement on a mechanism for operating the Renaissance Dam, the Egyptian water minister said on Friday. The planned $4 billion Renaissance Dam will be Africa’s biggest dam and aims […]
Read more »Drought: Trigger For Syria’s Civil War?
March 3rd, 2015
Via Mashable, a detailed look at how global warming sparked Syria’s civil war: Manmade global warming helped spark the brutal civil war in Syria by doubling to tripling the odds that a crippling drought in the Fertile Crescent would occur shortly before the fighting broke out, according to a groundbreaking new study published on March […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: 3 Maps Explain India’s Growing Water Risks
February 27th, 2015
Via the World Resources Institute, an interesting look at India’s water stress: India is one of the most water-challenged countries in the world, from its deepest aquifers to its largest rivers. Groundwater levels are falling as India’s farmers, city residents and industries drain wells and aquifers. What water is available is often severely polluted. And […]
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