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Pakistan’s “Raging” Water Crisis
June 23rd, 2010
Courtesy of the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper, an interesting report on Pakistan’s water crisis. As the article notes: “…Pakistan is facing a “raging“ water crisis that if managed poorly could mean Pakistan would run out of water in several decades, experts say, leading to mass starvation and possibly war. The reliance on a single […]
Read more »India And Pakistan To Arbitrate Water Feud
June 18th, 2010
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report that India and Pakistan are establishing an arbitration panel to address an intensifying dispute over rival hydro-electric projects, highlighting the growing importance of water in the tensions between the dry but nuclear-armed neighbours. As the article notes: “…Tensions have been rising as both countries face deepening water crises, […]
Read more »Tajikistan’s Pledge on Central Asian Water
June 18th, 2010
Via Chance of Rain, an interesting sound bite from Tajikistan’s President when discussing Central Asian water issues: “The peoples of regional countries should be sure that Tajikistan will never let Central Asia suffer from shortage of water … Tajikistan proposes building water pipes from Lake Sarez … The lake’s reserve of water, which is the purest […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s ‘Long Haul” To Slake the North’s Thirst
June 13th, 2010
Courtesy of IEEE’s Spectrum magazine, a detailed look at China’s ambitious plans to address its water scarcity issues: “…In 1952, Mao Zedong visited the great rushing rivers of China’s south and suggested that the thirsty north “borrow” some. Thus was born the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Nearly 60 years later, construction is under way on […]
Read more »Understanding Water Conflict In Central Asia
June 13th, 2010
Courtesy of Water Matters@Columbia, advance notification of a research project currently underway at the Columbia Water Center where a research team is analyzing Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan), and the environmental, political and economic crisis building there over water: A small nutshell description of a vastly complex situation: The five states are […]
Read more »Iraq’s Water Challenges
June 13th, 2010
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how the The Shatt al Arab, the river that flows from the biblical site of the Garden of Eden to the Persian Gulf, has turned into an environmental and economic disaster that Iraq’s newly democratic government is almost powerless to fix. As the article notes: “…Withered […]
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