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The Ukraine War Is Changing the Future of the World’s Tallest Dam

Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a video look at how the Rogun Dam in Tajikistan, set to be the world’s tallest, could reshape Central Asia’s energy landscape. And with the Ukraine war shifting geopolitics in the region, Tajikistan is gaining international support.

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Ukraine’s Destroyed Dam Has Led To Parched Irrigation Channels

Via Newsweek, a report on the devastating impact that the destruction of Kakhovka dam is having upon Ukraine: Ukrainian farmers face a pressing threat as the vital irrigation systems supplying water to their fields in Kherson start to dry up. In June, the Kakhovka dam in Russia-occupied Kherson was destroyed in an explosion because of the ongoing […]

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Not Just In Ukraine: How Armies Turn Water Into A Weapon Of War

Via 19FortyFive, a look at how the breach of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine is hardly the first time that water has been used as a weapon of war. Earlier this week a breach in the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant unleashed the Dnipro River, flooding a vast expanse of the Ukrainian countryside. Russia and Ukraine have blamed one […]

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Water and Conflict: Updates from the Russia-Ukraine War

We are living in a time of water and kinetic conflict in the Ukraine and I would like to highlight this interesting discussion ahead: Russia’s war in Ukraine has devastated the country’s water and sanitation infrastructure. Civilian water supply and treatment have been exposed to collateral damage, wielded as weapons through targeted attacks, and strained […]

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Russia Accused Of Sabotaging Ukraine Water Pipe To Mykolaiv

Courtesy of BBC, an article on accusations that Russia intentionally sabotaged water supply infrastructure in Ukraine: For six months, homes in Ukraine’s southern coastal city of Mykolaiv have been without clean drinking water. Military and UN experts have told a BBC investigation they believe Russian forces deliberately cut off the water supply last April. Satellite […]

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Russia Threatens Ukrainian Dam

Via BBC, an article on Russia’s threat to a key reservoir for Ukrainian water: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of preparing to blow up a dam at a hydroelectric plant in southern Ukraine, which would lead to a “large-scale disaster”. In his overnight address he said the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper river […]

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