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The Thirsty Dragon: Yunnan Province’s Role On The Frontlines of China’s Water Crisis Is Karst In Stone
January 20th, 2010
Courtesy of The Circle of Blue, a detailed examination of Yunnan Province, the front lines of China’s fresh water crisis. As the article notes: “…In the southwest corner of China, a land of towering mountains and deep gorges not far from the border of Vietnam, is Shi Dong, the Rock Cave. It is here, 800 […]
Read more »Arguing Over The Ganges
January 16th, 2010
Via Bangladesh’s New Nation, an article on the sharing of rivers between India and Bangladesh. As the report notes: “…Bangladesh was deprived of about 21 thousand cusecs of water during the 1-10 January period this year. Under the provisions of the 1996 Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, Bangladesh was supposed to get some 68 thousand cusecs […]
Read more »“Liquid Peace” In The Middle East
January 13th, 2010
Via Green Prophet, an interesting interview with Ashkelon, Israel’s mayor Benny Vaknin who is building a water bridge with the city of Gaza. As the report notes, how does Ashkelon’s mayor Benny Vaknin see “liquid†peace in the region? “…The former businessman is working to solutions for peace and cooperation with the nearby Gaza City. […]
Read more »Mekong Under Threat
January 13th, 2010
Courtesy of The Asia Pacific Journal, an examination of the threats facing the Mekong River. As the article notes: “…Until the 1980s the Mekong River flowed freely for 4,900 kilometres from its 5,100-metre high source in Tibet to the coast of Vietnam, where it finally poured into the South China Sea. The Mekong is the world’s twelfth longest […]
Read more »Sudan – Land of Water and Thirst; War and Peace
January 9th, 2010
Via The Circle of Blue, a detailed analysis of the critical role that water plays in the potential for peace in Sudan. As the article notes: “As we approach the January 2011 date for the referendum on the south, and as we see Darfur seemingly in an eerily, but uncertain, peaceful period, we need to […]
Read more »The Ring Tide of Mideast Water Tension: Neo-Ottomanism & Turkey As A Hydrological Superpower
January 9th, 2010
Courtesy of NPR, an interesting look at the acute water shortage in the Middle East, and downstream resentment from Arabs, Iraqis and the Syrians that Turkey is growing into a hydrological superpower. As the article notes: The massive Ataturk Dam (shown here in 1992), in southeast Turkey, harnesses water for one of the biggest irrigation […]
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