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Tajikistan – Delayed Plans to be the Battery of Central Asia
January 1st, 2008
An interesting article examining Tajikistan’s ambitions to become the “battery” of Central Asia, namely a delay in such due to shortages of concrete necessary for a big hydropower plant under construction. According to the article: “…Tajikistan plans to be the largest electricity exporter in Central Asia. Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan have already stated they are […]
Read more »Worse To Come: Global Warming’s Impact on West’s Water Crisis
January 1st, 2008
As reported by Treehugger, some researchers – in the face of the American West’s recent bout with several severe water shortages – have stepped forward and confidently asserted that there does indeed exist a link between global warming and the scarcity, namely the shrinking snowpacks. While this seems intuitive, this article is noteworthy as it […]
Read more »Laos as Southeast Asia’s Battery – Too Many Contact Points?
January 1st, 2008
Via Terra Daily, interesting details of the plans of mountainous Laos, one of Asia’s poorest nations, to exploit its hydropower potential to become the “battery of Southeast Asia” and sell electricity to its more industrialised neighbours Vietnam and Thailand. While the focus of the article is primarily over the potential environmental and freshwater impact a […]
Read more »Water in the West: An ‘Agreement to Share Adversity’
December 15th, 2007
As reported in the Los Angeles Times, the federal government – faced with the eighth year of the worst drought in the century-long historic record of the Colorado River – recently adopted new guidelines on managing the Western United States’ most important water source to help avoid disputes between the seven basin states of Wyoming, […]
Read more »Go West (for water), young man…
December 15th, 2007
As The Economist recently noted, America’s West – gripped by drought – is rethinking how it uses water. As the article notes, seven states, as well as northern Mexico, rely on the Colorado River and are quickly coming to the realization that things have changed: “This is not a normal drought,†says Pat Mulroy of […]
Read more »Like Oil & Water: The Middle East and Sustainable Water Solutions
December 9th, 2007
As reported by TreeHugger, the Arab League tossed cold water on a UN proposal to set up a Middle East environmental training center focused on sustainable water solutions during a meeting in Cairo in which the 22 members of the Arab League discussed the effects of climate change on the Middle East. As the report […]
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