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The Parched Tiger: New Delhi’s Water Crisis
June 19th, 2014
Via the Financial Times, a report on New Delhi’s water crisis: Hunting for one of the necessities of life was not how Lakhvinder Singh, a former civil servant from India’s Telecommunications Department, imagined he would spend his otherwise comfortable retirement. But as the summer temperature tops 45 degrees, Mr Singh and many of the other […]
Read more »Conflicts in Kyrgyzstan: Foreshadowing Water Wars to Come?
June 17th, 2014
Via Creative Time Reports, a look at the water stress of Central Asia where the region is divided into water-rich upstream states, and water-poor downstream ones, and the division leads to conflict and tit-for-tat exchanges, in which water is used for leverage. This article places a particular focus on Kyrgyzstan where the convergence of a […]
Read more »Last Straw: How The Fortunes Of Las Vegas Will Rise Or Fall With Lake Mead
June 15th, 2014
Via Popular Science, a detailed look at the massive, expensive, and politically fraught project to build a new tunnel under Lake Mead to deliver water to Las Vegas: The bathtub ring can be seen for miles. The 120-foot-high band of rock, bleached nearly white by mineral-rich water, circles the shoreline of Lake Mead. Water levels […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon And Parched Tiger: Climate Change Could Lead To China-India Water Conflict
June 15th, 2014
Via RTCC, some commentary on how decline in water flow from Tibetan Plateau likely to exacerbate tensions in region over coming decades: Melting Himalayan glaciers and erratic rainfall could exacerbate tensions between central Asian countries later this century, warn defence analysts in a new report.They say droughts or extreme rains linked to climate change could […]
Read more »A Water War In The Desert?
June 13th, 2014
Via New Scientist, a report on the militant Islamic group – ISIS’s – control over Iraq’s two main rivers: Iraq has blazed its way back onto the world’s front pages in the past 48 hours, with the seemingly sudden capture of the cities of Mosul and Tikrit by an extremist group. The group seems to […]
Read more »Lima: Served Without Water
June 3rd, 2014
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting look at Lima, Peru’s water challenges: Lima’s water trucks provide guides to understanding the circumstances affecting 21st century Peru, and to a larger extent the other fast-growing cities of Latin America. Municipal governments and taxpayers are not anxious to invest in water infrastructure to supply running water or […]
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