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Israel Siphoning Off Africa’s Nile?
August 3rd, 2012
Via Al Akhbar News, an article on the recent Israeli agreement with South Sudan over water: Egyptian and Sudanese policy failures have lead to a looming strategic threat to both countries’ most important resources – the Nile. Israel has now signed an agreement with the South Sudanese authorities over rights to the country’s precious water […]
Read more »Bangladesh To Help Nepal Manage Water Resources And Hydropower
August 1st, 2012
Via AsiaNews, a report that Bangladesh has agreed to work with Nepal in managing water resources. As the article notes: With an aim to import 1000 megawatt of electricity, Bangladesh has agreed to cooperate with Nepal in managing water resources and hydropower. The two countries also stressed the need for a trilateral discussion with India, […]
Read more »Myanmar: In The Dark Over Hydropower
July 29th, 2012
Courtesy of AlertNet, a look at Myanmar’s hydropower potential and politics: On a hot, humid evening in late May, hundreds of people holding candles gathered in the city of Mandalay to protest over power cuts, in the largest demonstration since Myanmar’s army crushed the monk-led “Saffron Revolution†nearly five years ago. The protests spread quickly to Yangon […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Melting Glaciers May Worsen Northwest China’s Water Woes
July 28th, 2012
Via Yale’s environment360, a look at China’s Xinjiang region and the challenges facing the Tarim Rier basin & other mountainous regions – how to secure water supplies as demands increase and glaciers melt: During four of the last 10 summers, more than half of the 800-mile Tarim River in northwestern China ran dry. Landscape ecologist […]
Read more »Thai Villagers To Fight Lao Mekong Dam In Court
July 25th, 2012
Courtesy of AlertNet, a look at some Thai citizens’ efforts to oppose Laotian hydropower projects: The inhabitants of Ban Pak Ing Tai, a leafy village in Thailand’s far north nestled between the mighty Mekong River and one of its tributaries, know only too well what dams can do. This used to be a fishing village […]
Read more »Egypt Water Shortage Protests Are Widespread and Violent
July 25th, 2012
Via Ooska News, a report that Egyptian citizens have taken to the streets to protest severe shortages of drinking and irrigation water: On the day that Egypt President Mohammed Morsi appointed former Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hisham Kandil as the country’s new Prime Minister, OOSKAnews can report that residents of seven Egyptian governorates […]
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