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Yemen: A Country Run Dry
August 27th, 2012
Via The Guardian, an article on Yemen’s intensifying water crisis: Despite plans to focus on rainwater harvesting and on water drilling, Yemen’s political uncertainty has pushed sanitation and water access down the list of priorities. Under a staircase, clinging to a wall of Sana’a’s Grand Mosque, groups of women and children lug plastic canisters to […]
Read more »Yemen: Being Sucked Dry
March 29th, 2012
Via Reuters, a look at Yemen’s increasingly desperate water situation: With a belch of acrid, greasy smoke and a jolt that shakes its moorings, the pump on Yemeni water farmer Jad al-Adhrani’s plot of land roars to life, and the race to squeeze the last drop of water out of Yemen’s parched earth resumes. Gesturing […]
Read more »Yemen’s Water Crisis And Conflict: A Signpost To Future Conflicts?
October 30th, 2009
Via Terra Daily, a report on Yemen’s water crisis and the possibility that the localized conflicts developing there could be a harbinger of what may come elsewhere in the region in the decades ahead. As the article notes: “…Sanaa may be the first capital city in the world to run out of water. If that […]
Read more »Water Conflict in Yemen
April 12th, 2009
Via The Yemen Times, a sobering report on the state of water – and related conflict – in Yemen. As the article notes: “Seventy percent of tribal conflict in Yemen is over water. Dozens are killed every year, daily life is disturbed, and development projects are put on hold because of fights over water wells […]
Read more »Emerging Water Shortages
June 8th, 2008
Via YubaNet.com, an insightful adaptation of Chapter 4, “Emerging Water Shortages,” from Lester R. Brown’s Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. It details a number of countries that are overpumping aquifers as they struggle to satisfy their growing water needs, including the big three grain producers–China, India, and the United States. But, as the […]
Read more »Averting Water Wars in Asia – Will Tibet’s Waters Really Save China?
January 15th, 2008
Several months ago, The International Herald Tribune presciently (in our opinion) noted that sharpening Asian competition over energy resources had obscured a far more critical threat that water shortages pose for the region’s rapid economic modernization. Water, in fact, has emerged as a key issue that could determine if Asia is headed toward cooperation or […]
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