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Water: A Determining Factor in Future Regional Conflicts in South Asia
June 27th, 2008
Via The Asia Sentinel, an insightful look at how the decades-old competition for water complicates the already-bitter relationship between India and her neighbors. As the article notes: “…Water is destined to be a determining factor in the regional conflicts of South Asia in the years to come, particularly between India and Pakistan. Unquestionably one of […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon’s Big Drain
June 26th, 2008
From Portfolio Magazine, another article detailing the growing threat that drought has upon China’s economic growth and rural populations. As the pieces notes: “… authorities in Beijing, bent on fueling the capital’s epic growth, have commandeered nearly every drop of water they can pump from the surrounding countryside. Deprived of government help to drill wells […]
Read more »The Queen of Sin City’s Royal Flush
June 22nd, 2008
Via The Las Vegas Sun, an interesting look at Pat Mulroy of the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the actions that Las Vegas has taken to secure water supplies. As the article notes: “…Water is fuel. Without it, runaway growth across the Southwest would not be possible. To witness what cheap, federally subsidized water out […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon’s Thirsty Games
June 21st, 2008
Via Forbes, another article detailing how residents of China’s barren northern villages, still gasping from the effects of a severe drought, have been told it is their national duty to “safeguard the Olympics” by sacrificing their own meager water supplies. As the article notes: “…The Olympic rowing park was created last year by diverting a […]
Read more »Shrinking Lake Chad
June 21st, 2008
Via National Geographic, dramatic satellite images from 1972 (left) and 2007 (right) which show the water-level decline in Lake Chad, once the world’s sixth largest but now one-tenth its former size due to declining rainfall and diversion of water for human use. While not yet a site of water conflict, given the lake’s location at […]
Read more »Central Asia: Water Tensions Soon To Boil Over?
June 20th, 2008
From Radio Free Europe, a detailed look at how age-old water problems are bringing tensions to a boil in Central Asia. As the article notes: “…The cities, towns, and villages of western Uzbekistan, and western Central Asia in general, are facing the same hot summer short of water — a cruel fate considering many of these areas […]
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