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The Dam and the Damned: Gibe III Ethiopia
March 21st, 2012
Via Nazret.com, a passionate look at the Gibe III dam project and its potential impact: Three years ago to the week, I wrote a weekly commentary entitled, “Cry Me a Lake: Crime Against Natureâ€. That commentary focused on the plight of tens of thousands of Ethiopians who are sick and dying from drinking the polluted […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: The Shrinking Depths Below
March 19th, 2012
Via China Dialogue, a report on the threats to underground water supplies in China’s arid north: Water stress in northern China is driving some of the biggest engineering projects in human history: pipelines to transfer billions of cubic metres of water from south to north, desalination plants to supply the east coast, proposals to pump […]
Read more »Water “Apartheid” In The West Bank?
March 19th, 2012
From Australia’s World News, a look at whether water is being used as a weapon in the West Bank: In the Middle East, water is more than just a precious commodity — it’s a serious sticking point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After a French politician denounced Israel’s policy as “water apartheid,” a deeper look into […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Jiangxi Province Lobbies Hard for Damming of China’s Largest Freshwater Lake
March 16th, 2012
Courtesy of Xinhuanet.com, an article on Jiangxi Province’s efforts to develop a new water project on China’s largest freshwater lake: Officials from east China’s Jiangxi have been pushing for support of a water project at the mouth of China’s largest freshwater lake Poyang, but the potential impact of the project is still strongly disputed. On […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Calls On Myanmar To Restart Suspended $3.6 billion Power Dam Project
March 11th, 2012
Via The Washington Post, a report that China has called on Myanmar to restart a suspended $3.6 billion power dam project. As the article notes: “…Chinese officials have urged Myanmar’s government to restart a Chinese-backed multibillion-dollar power dam project that was suspended apparently without notice last year. China was caught off guard by September’s suspension […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Assam Fights India’s Mega Dams
March 9th, 2012
Via China Dialogue, a report on popular protests against the construction of a vast network of dams in the Brahmaputra valley which have gathered impressive momentum: In demonstrations barely reported in the media, people in the north-east Indian state of Assam have been fighting for several years against a proposed gargantuan network of dams across […]
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