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California: A Run on the Water Bank?
December 14th, 2011
Via California Lawyer, an interesting article on one determined investigator’s efforts to pursues a Los Angeles billionaire for allegedly seizing control of the state’s water supply. As the report notes: Illustration by Jake Flaherty Who is Adam Keats, and why is he so focused on Los Angeles billionaire Stewart Resnick? Attorneys representing Resnick’s vast agricultural […]
Read more »Kashmir’s Abandoned Glaciers
December 14th, 2011
Via ChinaDialogue, a report on the impact that a recent decision to shelve a project that monitored melting Himalayan ice will have upon our ability to understand changes in Asia’s water sources. As the article notes: Funding cuts have brought a halt to one of the few on-the-ground projects monitoring receding ice in the western […]
Read more »Water: Strategic Foresight And A Warning Issue For National Security
December 8th, 2011
Via The Water Chronicles, a report on the water as a strategic warning issue for national security: The emergence of a global water crisis seems to be a fact that is reaffirmed across media almost everyday. The National Geographic, for example, has a whole section devoted to the water crisis or more precisely freshwater crisis, […]
Read more »The Age of Thirst In The American West
December 6th, 2011
Via Grist, an interesting summary of a recent book looking at the issue of water shortages in the southwestern U.S. As the article notes: Consider it a taste of the future: the fire, smoke, drought, dust, and heat that have made life unpleasant, if not dangerous, from Louisiana to Los Angeles. New records tell the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Dam Building Plans For China
December 1st, 2011
Courtesy of Meltdown in Tibet, a survey of Chinese dam building plans: This map shows a projected dam at Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo river with capacity of 38,000MW, which would be more than double that of the Three Gorges Dam (shown on this map at 18,200MW). The map shows plans for dams in […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Damming the Mother of Asian Civilization
November 29th, 2011
Via OnEarth magazine, an article looking at the impact of dams on Tibetan watersheds: Ten million years ago, Asia and the Indian subcontinent collided giving rise to the world’s highest mountains with the largest plateau, Tibet. Only recently have scientists pieced together the workings of the complex planetary engine that drives climate, in which the […]
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