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Iran Launches $1.5 Billion Project To Bring Water From Caspian Sea To Country’s Central Desert
April 17th, 2012
Via The Washington Post, an article on a new Iranian plan to address its drinking and irrigation water shortage. As the report notes: Iran has launched a $1.5 billion project to bring water for drinking and irrigation from the Caspian Sea to its central desert. Monday’s report on state TV did not say how long […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Drought Dilemma
April 17th, 2012
Via The Economist, a report on China’s water problems: FANG HAIXIN, a subsistence farmer near the village of Huopu in western Guizhou province, never used to fret about not having enough water. True, there was the odd dry year. But rainfall was usually abundant, and harvests adequate. Yet like many in south-west China over the […]
Read more »Could Egypt Run Out Of Water By 2025?
April 17th, 2012
Courtesy of Green Prophet, a look at Egypt’s water concerns: When construction began on the Nile’s Aswan Dam in 1960, in the southern reaches of Egypt, Egyptians were sure they were about to tame the world’s longest river. “Before the dam, the people’s lives here were much worse. The water would rise and fall without […]
Read more »Why India and Pakistan Are Squaring Off Over Their Rivers
April 17th, 2012
Courtesy of Time, a look at the water tensions between India and Pakistan: India’s Wular Lake, a popular picnic and tourist spot nestled in the Kashmir Valley, is an unlikely site for conflict. But India’s plan to build a structure on the Jhelum River at the mouth of the lake that will allow it to […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Coming Water Crisis Threatens Growth And Stability
April 15th, 2012
Courtesy of The China Economic Review, a look at how China’s coming water crisis threatens growth and stability. As the article notes: “…The Yarlung Tsampo River has hurtled down from the Himalayas for millennia, cleaving the mountain range in two and creating one of the world’s steepest and longest canyons. The river forms a huge […]
Read more »Egypt: Losing Its Grip On The Nile
April 15th, 2012
Via The Global Post, an article on how political uncertainty in post-revolution Egypt is allowing other Nile states to wrest control of the world’s longest river. As the report notes: Amid the barren, earth-dug canals and emaciated livestock that stalk the dirt roads of Ethiopia’s northern highlands, Teshale, a 25-year-old farmer, waits idly for the […]
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