BLOG
Sharing Central Asia’s Waters: The Case Of Afghanistan
January 20th, 2013
Via the International Water Law Project, a look at Afghanistan’s regional water issues: Afghanistan has four major river basins. All are international watercourses as that term is defined in the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of Non-navigable Uses of International Watercourses. When looking at the waters in Afghanistan the regional history cannot be ignored […]
Read more »Could Chinese Loans Pull China Into African Water Conflicts?
January 15th, 2013
Via ChinaDialogue, an article on the possibility that Chinese-funded dam and irrigation projects may nurture conflict in Africa: China has made great efforts to support poverty reduction in Africa, and likes to present itself as a friend of the African people. But loans for contentious dam and irrigation projects now threaten to pull China into […]
Read more »Regional Implications Of The Indus Basin Water Tension
January 15th, 2013
Via Pakistan’s Express Tribune, an interesting report on “Pakistan’s stance is simply that it just doesn’t trust India regarding the water issue,†said Feisal Naqvi. He was speaking about the Indus Water Treaty, signed in 1960, at a roundtable, Indus Water Treaty, Trans-boundary Water Issues and Prospects of Peace in South Asia, at the Forman […]
Read more »Water Grabbers: A Global Rush On Freshwater And Saudi Arabia’s Great Thirst; The Kingdom Stakes A Claim On The Nile
January 12th, 2013
Via National Geographic, an interesting look at Saudi Arabia’s efforts to utilize part of the Nile’s water: Papyrus reed boats cross the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia, where some people claim their water is being handed over to Saudi business interests. The cows appear on the horizon like a mirage. Drive about a hundred miles […]
Read more »Ethiopian Dam Threatens To Destroy Indigenous Livelihoods And The World’s Largest Desert Lake
January 11th, 2013
Via National Geographic, a report on Ethiopia’s Gibe III dam: Over the last century, the construction of big dams to generate power, supply water and control floods has unleashed a damaging cascade of social and environmental consequences – including the destruction of fisheries, subsistence farmlands, homes and communities. More than 470 million people around the […]
Read more »Regional Cooperation On Mekong At Low Ebb
January 11th, 2013
Via WWF, regional cooperation around Mekong River issues is at a low ebb at present: Ministers from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam meeting next week in the Lao city of Luang Prabang must put derailed decision-making on Mekong River mainstream dams back on track or risk sabotaging management of one of the world’s great rivers, […]
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