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A Mother’s Milk (River): Down to A Trickle but Still Causing Waves
December 7th, 2007
Along the normally placid U.S./Canadian border, American officials are causing waves by contending that the U.S. is not getting its adequate share from the Milk and St. Mary’s Rivers which flow into the Canadian province of Alberta. As the Calgary Herald noted recently, this argument is not just about competing claims between Montana and Alberta, […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Pitting Farmers vs. City Dwellers and Planning an Olympic Shower
December 6th, 2007
Via JapanFocus, a provocative and insightful piece by Dai Qing (a writer and an activist who has long fought the Three Gorge dam project), regarding China’s impending water crisis and – more importantly – the class divisions it will foment as wealthy urban dwellers demand more water from poor rural Chinese. This powerful review corresponded […]
Read more »Tajikistan: Asia’s Reservoir of Last Resort?
December 6th, 2007
In view of the current Water Summit and its focus on the fact that many Asia-Pacific countries lack adequate clean water, NewEurasia offered an interesting look at Tajikistan – a nation often considered as a strategically important country which has huge resources of water. The article notes: “…A lot of people in Tajikistan believe that […]
Read more »China and Central Asia: Working Together to Manage the Balkhash-Alakol Basin
November 29th, 2007
News from the Central Asia Water site that a draft agreement on the use of the Balkhash-Alakol Basin has been prepared. As the article notes: “…Kazakhstan’s Minister of Environmental Protection Nurlan Iskakov stated that Kazakhstan, China and Kyrgyzstan prepared an agreement on rational use of the Balkhash-Alakol basin. According to the Minister, ecological consequences of […]
Read more »Water Politics in U.S. Southeast: Beware of the Inevitable Deluge
November 16th, 2007
Associated Press is reporting that Federal biologists signed off on a plan to reduce the flow of water from Lake Lanier, the main water source for Atlanta and the focal point of a three-state water fight as the Southeast contends with a historic drought. However, as the article notes, the issues is still under strong […]
Read more »Great Lakes Water Wars
November 9th, 2007
With large sections of the American West and South suffering through drought, some politicians and water managers are viewing the Great Lakes as the natural-resource equivalent of a fat pension fund, a “tappable” resource which could help in the near-term at the expense of future generations and regional communities. As a recent article from the […]
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