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Lake Balkhash: Becoming A Second Aral Sea?
October 27th, 2010
Courtesy of Window on Eurasia, an interesting report on the possibility that – as a Russian commentator recently stated – Lake Balkhash, the 12th largest lake in the world, is on the way to becoming “a second Aral Sea,†but one with potentially even more serious political consequences because both the causes of the lake’s […]
Read more »Egypt Boosts Investment & Cooperation In Ethiopia To Help Release Water Tension
October 15th, 2010
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report that Egypt’s increased investments in Ethiopia may help defuse rising tensions over Nile water allocations. As the article notes: “…Egypt’s increased investments in Ethiopia this year will help boost cooperation between the two Nile Basin states, Egyptian Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mohamed Nasreddin Allam said, the […]
Read more »The (In)Fertile Crescent?
October 14th, 2010
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on the increasingly dire situation facing Syria and Iraq due to shortages on the Euphrates. As the article notes: “…The farmlands spreading north and east of this Euphrates River town were once the breadbasket of the region, a vast expanse of golden wheat fields and bucolic sheep […]
Read more »Melting Glaciers = Rising Tensions: Peruvians Fight for Their Right to Water
October 10th, 2010
Courtesy of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, a report on recent violence which erupted in Peru over water. As the article notes: A Peruvian man sits in front a lake fed by melt from the Andean glaciers, seen in the background. (Source: Wikimedia, September 2008) Last week, on September 17, one man was killed and 18 […]
Read more »A Perfect Drought…
October 10th, 2010
Courtesy of Terra Daily, a report on the likelihood of unprecedented drought in the U.S. Southwest and the concerns that the severe decline in Lake Mead and resulting reductions in Colorado River allocations could pit states against one another. As the article notes: “…The convergence in the coming year of three cyclical conditions affecting ocean […]
Read more »Thirsty Dragon: Moving Heaven & Earth To Bring Water To Beijing
October 1st, 2010
Via Terra Daily, an updated look at China’s $62-billion South-North Water Diversion, which will bring water to the parched capital via three major phases: 1) the 885-mile eastern line from Hangzhou to Beijing, which mostly follows the route of the Grand Canal and is hoped to be ready by 2013; 2) the middle line, which […]
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