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Mexico: Potential Drought Crisis In Coming Months
February 26th, 2013
Via OOSKA News, an article on Mexico’s water crisis: Mexico could face a crisis due to drought and lack of water supply in the next few months, a Mexican legislator warned last week. Kamel Athié Flores, president of the Potable Water and Sanitation Committee for Mexico’s Congress of the Union (Mexico’s legislative branch), said the […]
Read more »Tajikistan Negotiating To Resolve Central Asian Water Feud
February 23rd, 2013
Via Bloomberg, an article on Tajikistan’s efforts to strike an agreement with its neighbors over water use: Tajikistan, which will host a United Nations summit on international water in August, is negotiating with neighbors to end a feud in the Amu Darya River basin where it plans to build the tallest hydroelectric dam. Efforts by […]
Read more »Who Owns The Nile? Egypt, Sudan, And Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam
February 22nd, 2013
Courtesy of Origins, an article on arguments over control of the Nile: Emperor Haile Selassie was offended by President Nasser’s exclusion of Ethiopia in the Nile Waters Agreement and in planning for building the Aswan Dam. He negotiated the 1959 divorce of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church from the Orthodox Church in Alexandria, ending 1600 years […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Map Of China’s Provincial Water Resources and Use (2002-2010)
February 22nd, 2013
Via Circle of Blue, an interesting mapping tool on China’s water: Nearly 70 percent of water withdrawn in China is for agriculture, while 20 percent is withdrawn to mine, process, and consume coal. By 2020, China’s water use — driven in large part by the 30 percent expected increase in coal-fired power production — will […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s West-East Electricity Transfer Project
February 19th, 2013
Via The Wilson Center’s China Environmental Forum, an interesting report on China’s energy and water imbalances, and the looming choke point China faces in terms of water, food and energy security: Mammoth infrastructure development is keeping China’s economic engine running at a fast clip. Nevertheless, China’s urban and industrial centers on the east coast still […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Low Salt Diet And Costly Drips
February 19th, 2013
Via The Economist, an interesting article on China’s desalination efforts: CHINESE officials are fond of grandiose engineering projects. After more than a decade of toil, one of the biggest since the construction of the Great Wall is close to achieving what they like to call a “decisive victoryâ€. In coming months, canals and pipelines hundreds […]
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