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Hydropolitical Vulnerability and Environmental Security
September 29th, 2009
Via Aquadoc, news that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is publishing a series on the hydropolitical vulnerability and resilence of international water resources on all the inhabited continents. As the article notes: “… a nation is hydropolitically vulnerable if there is the potential for conflict to arise with another nation(s) over a particular international […]
Read more »No More Southern Hospitality: A Tri-State Battle For Water
August 16th, 2009
Via The New York Times, an in-depth review of the ongoing conflict between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over water. As the article notes: “…A recent court defeat has left Atlanta howling that its enemies, including Alabama and Florida, are trying to choke off the city’s prosperity, if not out of sheer spite then at least […]
Read more »Nevada: Don’t Drink The Water In Mexico…
August 9th, 2009
Via The Las Vegas Review Journal, an interesting article suggesting that Nevada may look towards Mexico if various water conservation & desalination efforts in that country take off. As the article notes: “…Talks are progressing among officials from both sides of the border over new joint efforts to squeeze more water out of the arid […]
Read more »Water War of Words
July 28th, 2009
Via WaterCrunch, an interesting list of the top 10 water war “quotes” that have emerged thus far in the ongoing battle over scarce water resources in the southeastern United States in which a federal judge recently ruled the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been illegally reallocating water from Lake Lanier to meet metro Atlanta’s […]
Read more »Central Texas Water Wars
June 28th, 2009
Via The Burnt Orange Report, an article on the evolving political water wars in central Texas. As the report notes: “…We’ve been expecting it for a long time, and now a Great Water War has come to Central Texas. The Lower Colorado River Authority has abandoned its water agreement with San Antonio, scrapped millions in […]
Read more »Southwest U.S.: A Thirsty Las Vegas Looks Northward
April 12th, 2009
Via Time, an interesting article on the further developing water conflicts in the southwest U.S., namely between a thirsty Las Vegas and communities to the north. As the article notes: “The valley below Nevada’s Snake mountains should not have much to fear from Las Vegas. Its dun-colored terrain daubed with the green of shrubs, meadow […]
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