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Preventing Conflicts over Transboundary Dams
January 11th, 2025
Via International Water Power and Dam Construction, an article on how the planning, development, and management of dams in transboundary basins needs to be governed in an effective and cooperative manner to ensure limited negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts, and the mitigation of any potential conflict. The construction of dams within transboundary basins can lead […]
Read more »A Global Hunt For Water Profits Risks Draining Cities Dry
November 17th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on how – while taps in coastal Dakar barely trickle – an investment company uses Senegal’s only lake to irrigate crops it plans to send to Saudi Arabia: The Senegal River in West Africa musters its force from 200 centimeters (80 inches) of rain a year in the highlands of central […]
Read more »Drought-Stricken Work Together To Fight Water Woes
November 9th, 2022
Via Reuters, a report that drought-stricken countries have agreed to work together to fight water woes: Drought-stricken countries, led by Senegal and Spain, announced an alliance Monday to help each other manage water scarcity by sharing technology and expertise. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the U.N. climate conference, COP27, which is taking […]
Read more »Senegal Launches Contested Water Desalination Scheme
June 1st, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on Senegal’s controversial desalination plan: Senegal has kicked off work to build the country’s first water desalination plant, a scheme contested by critics as costly and an environmental peril. President Macky Sall on Tuesday ceremonially launched work to build a plant in Dakar’s Mamelles district aimed at easing the capital’s […]
Read more »Senegal’s Water-Stressed Capital Faces Difficult Future
April 2nd, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on Dakar’s water stressed future: Many residents of the Senegalese metropolis Dakar get up in the middle of the night hoping to collect water from their taps, which mostly run dry. “We wake up at 4 or 5 am to get water, says Sidy Fall, 44, in his kitchen in […]
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