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The Thirsty Dragon: Water Shortages Impact Economic Growth
July 27th, 2010
Via Yale’s e360, a report on the challenges that China – with 20% of the world’s population but just 7% of its available freshwater – has as water shortages impact its economy and urbanization initiatives. As the article notes: “…On a recent visit to the Gobi desert, which stretches across China’s western Gansu province, I […]
Read more »Indus Water Treaty: Poised To Burst?
July 27th, 2010
Courtesy of Toronto’s Globe & Mail, an interesting follow-on report on whether the venerable Indus Water Treaty is still adequate to deal with modern water disputes. As the article notes: “…The last time water issues pushed India and Pakistan to the brink of armed conflict was half a century ago, when Bashir Ahmad Malik was […]
Read more »Pakistan: Drinking Dust
July 25th, 2010
Courtesy of The Globe and Mail, an interesting look at the challenges posed by the shrinking water resources in the Indus Basin and the emergence of a risky geopolitical environmental crisis. As the article notes: “…The Indus looks nothing like the mighty river from history books. Alexander the Great once sailed galleys along these waters; […]
Read more »Pakistani – Indian Water Tensions
July 21st, 2010
Courtesy of The New York Times, a detailed report on the water tensions arising in a high Himalayan valley on the Indian-controlled side of Kashmir, as India and Pakistan argue over water. As the article notes: “…This time it is not the ground underfoot, which has been disputed since the bloody partition of British India […]
Read more »Turkey Waters Cyprus
July 21st, 2010
Via Terra Daily, an update on the on-again/off-again plan for Turkey to provide water to Cyprus. As the article notes: “Turkey signed an agreement Monday with the the breakaway Turkish statelet in Cyprus on a long-standing project to build a pipeline under the Mediterranean to supply water to the island’s north. The framework agreement envisages […]
Read more »Simmering Dispute Over Nile Heating Up
July 19th, 2010
Courtesy of Yale’s e360, an interesting report on the simmering dispute over who owns the waters of the River Nile which is heating up. As the article notes: “…From its headwaters in Ethiopia and the central African highlands to the downstream regional superpower Egypt, the Nile flows through 10 nations. But by a quirk of […]
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