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Could Central Asia Go To War Over Water?
September 16th, 2012
Via Business Insider, an article on the simmering water tensions of Central Asia: Earlier this week, President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan indicated that efforts by Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to build hydroelectric power stations on rivers that flowed into Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan could “spark war.†Water wars are a hot topic right now, with conflicts or […]
Read more »How Unsustainable Water Policies Crippled The Assad Regime
September 14th, 2012
Via Green Prophet, an interesting article on the link between unsustainable water policies and the chaos that ensued in Syria: The link between climate change and political instability may still be ambiguous, but recent research is uncovering a connection between sustainable water and food policies and the survival of governments. Shahrzad Mohtadi found that whilst a […]
Read more »Vietnam Warns Of Water Conflicts
September 14th, 2012
Via The Phuket News, an article noting Vietnam’s concerns that nations could soon be engaged in conflicts over access to water, especially over exploitation of Southeast Asia’s Mekong River: Speaking at a business forum in Russia, Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang said water was likely to become a geopolitical flashpoint commodity like oil. “It would […]
Read more »Water to Cause Further Tensions in Central Asia
September 13th, 2012
Courtesy of Central Asia Economy Newswire, a report on central Asia water tension: Uzbek President Islam Karimov brought worldwide attention to Central Asia’s water disputes on Friday during a state visit to his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev, warning that tensions may spill over and cause bloodshed if issues remained unresolved. The one small detail he […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Water Problem
September 8th, 2012
Via Caixin, an article on China’s water problems: This summer’s weather has been intense. In Beijing, flash floods paralyzed the capital in late July and killed at least 77 people. A storm that flooded Manila turned the Philippines’ capital into what one official called “Water World.” Hong Kong raised the Signal Ten typhoon warning for […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Largest Hydropower Station On Mekong River Starts Operation
September 8th, 2012
Via Xinhua News, a report on a new hydropower station on the Mekong River: The largest hydropower station on Lancang River in southwest China’s Yunnan Province — known as the Mekong River in southeast Asia — went into operation Thursday with its first power generating unit up and running. The Nuozhadu hydroelectric station, located in […]
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