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Harnessing South Asia’s Rivers
August 20th, 2012
Via Third Pole.net, an interesting look at how government negotiations have failed to improve water cooperation in South Asia, but a new regulatory body that encompasses the entire Himalayan watershed may offer a way forward: Historic power outages in India this month deprived 670 million people of electricity, more than any previous global outage. These […]
Read more »Oil and Water Don’t Mix in Lake Malawi Border Dispute
August 20th, 2012
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a brief commentary on the Lake Malawi border dispute where, in the search for oil & natural gas, Africa’s third largest lake has become a political battlefield: Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa, is one of the African Great Lakes that lies in the Eastern Rift Valley. It is […]
Read more »Laos Never Ordered Work On Xayaburi Dam To Stop: Official
August 20th, 2012
Via Mizzima, a report that Laos never formally requested the construction of the controversial Xayaburi dam to stop: The Thai developer of the US$ 3.5 billion Xayaburi hydropower dam in Laos says the Laotian government never sent a formal letter asking it to stop construction of the dam, which has prompted  serious concerns from Cambodia […]
Read more »Water: Connecting Israel to Africa
August 15th, 2012
Via Green Prophet, an article on increasing cooperation between Israel and Africa over water: Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, landed on Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He continued on to Uganda and Kenya, where he will inaugurate two Israeli-cooperation projects in agriculture and health. According to Israel’s ambassador to Uganda, Gil Haskel, Israel is […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Thirst For Coal Could Soon Land It In A Water Shortage
August 15th, 2012
Via Business Insider, a look at a new Greenpeace report on the risk that 16 large-scale coal bases that China has planned could trigger severe water crises in the country’s arid northwest: As China continues to grow, so too do its energy demands. A report by Greenpeace released this month titled “Thirsty Coal: A Water […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Water Supply Stress In China
August 9th, 2012
Via the JAWRA blog, reference to a recent report on water supply stress in China: Water supply and use data were compiled for the time period of 1998-2003 in this synthesis study in Northern China. The Water Supply Stress Index (WSSI) as defined as Water Demand/Water Supply was used to quantitate whether water supply could […]
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