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Water Rationing In Tehran As Iran Faces Looming Water Crisis
November 13th, 2013
Via Future Directions, a report on the potential need for water rationing to be imposed in Tehran if residents fail to reduce their water consumption by 20 per cent following a sharp decline in annual precipitation: Reduced rainfall across Iran is leading to significant reductions in groundwater reserves and fears a water crisis is looming. […]
Read more »Egyptian Farmers Fear Water Supply Threat From Ethiopian Dam
November 12th, 2013
Via Seed Daily, an article on the continuing tensions arising from the planned Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia: With an economy already in tatters, Egypt’s farmers fear the building of an upstream Nile dam in Ethiopia could lead to water shortages and crop failures with catastrophic effects on their livelihood. “We don’t want this dam,” says […]
Read more »Hungry Neighbours? Indonesia’s Future Food Strategy And Water Security
November 12th, 2013
Via Future Directions, an interesting look at Indonesia’s water security: Key Points Indonesia currently has a low level of food insecurity. Food supplies are theoretically adequate to feed the population, however inefficiencies in distribution systems across the archipelago restrict access to food products at prices affordable for the nation’s poor. In October 2012, the Indonesian […]
Read more »Egypt And Ethiopia Disagree On Probe Of Nile Dam Impact
November 6th, 2013
Via Bloomberg, an update on the planned Renaissance dam: Egypt called for international experts to help prepare a new study on the regional impact of a $4.2 billion dam in Ethiopia, which said a team made up of officials from the two nations and Sudan is enough. Egypt wants “trusted international consultancies” to look into […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Damming Politics Surrounding India, China, And A Trans-Border River
November 5th, 2013
Courtesy of the Third Pole.net, an interesting commentary on how – by refusing to acknowledge the Brahmaputra as the critical source for millions of subsistence livelihoods – Indian negotiations have instead opted to be embroiled in the narrow politics of damming: In recent years, whenever India and China have met at the highest level, the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Great Dam Boom
November 5th, 2013
Via Yale’s e360, a detailed look at China’s push to build hydroelectric dams on a scale unprecedented in human history which – while being touted for producing lower-emission electricity – these massive dam projects are wreaking havoc on river systems across China and Southeast Asia: In their search for renewable electric power, China’s engineers have been […]
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