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Water Issues In Kazakhstan
July 17th, 2013
Via the Silk Road Intelligencer, an interesting article on water in Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan is not the first country that comes to mind when discussing water politics. In Central Asia, this topic is more often associated with Uzbekistan, which uses more water annually than it has, and Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which are both located upstream from […]
Read more »Pakistan: Tackling Its Water Shortages
July 9th, 2013
Via The International News, an article on Pakistan’s water challenges: Pakistan has been facing several major crises that include terrorism, the Balochistan and Karachi issues, electricity and gas shortages besides economic stagnation. It is unfortunate that some major crises have diverted the attention of the government and people away from other major issues. The water […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Does China Have Enough Water to Burn Coal?
July 8th, 2013
Via Scientific American, an interesting look at China’s thirst for power, specifically the disconnect between China’s rising demand for coal but the parched country’s growing challenges in finding enough water to cool its coal-fired power plants: By many measures, this northern Chinese city is an ideal candidate for being China’s Wyoming. It has more brown […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Water – Indian Business’ New Crisis
July 6th, 2013
Via Forbes, a report on India’s water crisis: Even as the numbers of dead and missing rose from the disastrous floods in the Himalayan rivers, it was a water calamity of a different kind in southern India. In coastal Chennai, a base to automakers and IT services firms, a severe water shortage pushed several companies […]
Read more »Ethiopia’s Plan to Dam the Nile Has Egypt Fuming
July 2nd, 2013
Via Time Magazine, a summary of the Ethiopia-Egypt tensions over the Nile: The heat is stifling but the construction workers and red-hatted engineers don’t let up. Mechanized excavators batter into the mighty, arid peaks on either side of the site of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance dam, set to be the largest in Africa. The foundations are […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: The Story Of The Xiaonanhai Dam
July 2nd, 2013
Via China Dialogue, an article on China’s Xiaonanhai dam: Chongqing has been pushing the Xiaonanhai Dam onto the agenda since 2005. After Bo Xilai became Party Secretary, preparations for the dam intensified, leaving state authorities and even the Three Gorges Group on the back foot. Yet the dam will have an enormous impact on the […]
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