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The Thirsty Dragon And Parched Tiger: An Impending India-China Water War Over The Brahmaputra?
May 4th, 2014
Via the Eurasia Review, a look at water tensions between India and China: Recently, Claude Arpi, renowned scholar on China wrote about how China’s aspirations to divert the waters of the Brahmaputra River were feeding into mounting disagreements between New Delhi and Beijing. China has consistently been moving ahead with its dam construction projects and […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Tapped Out – Will Hong Kong Run Out of Water?
May 1st, 2014
Via Quartz, an interesting look at Hong Kong’s water challenge: If Hong Kong and water had a relationship status on Facebook, it would be “It’s complicated.” On the one hand, Hong Kong has been progressive and forward-thinking with water — it was the first city in the world to use seawater for toilet-flushing and one […]
Read more »U.S. Southwest: High And Dry
April 28th, 2014
Via RAND Corporation, a detailed look at implications of climate change on water supplies & management in the United States’ southwest: Droughts across the western United States have left water managers worried like never before. The Colorado River and its reservoirs, upon which seven states rely, are being depleted by 14 years of drought nearly […]
Read more »Brazil’s Cup Runneth Under…
April 28th, 2014
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how dry weather and a growing population are spelling rationing for Brazil: BRAZIL has the world’s biggest reserves of fresh water. That most of it sits in the sparsely populated Amazon has not historically stopped Brazilians in the drier, more populous south taking it for granted. No longer. […]
Read more »Ukraine Has Cut Back Water Supply To Crimea
April 27th, 2014
Via Terra Daily, a report on Ukraine’s reduction of water supplies to Crimea: Ukraine has reduced its water supplies to the Crimea peninsula, which was annexed by Russia last month, the region’s governor Sergei Aksyonov said Saturday. “Ukraine’s sabotage limiting the water supply to the republic through the North Crimea canal can only be qualified […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Water Woes
April 26th, 2014
Via the Eurasia Review, an article on Pakistan’s water crisis: A month ago, one of the water experts in Pakistan warned that the “most dreaded water scarcity ever” has at last hit the country. The warning came not too soon and the surprise if any is that the warning has come too late. Unlike India, […]
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