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Beware The China Model: Asia Doesn’t Have Enough Water
October 2nd, 2018
Via Third Pole, a report on Asia’s water shortage: Asia does not have enough water to fuel its economy or provide food and power unless countries radically rethink their current export–led growth model, argues a new report from the Hong Kong based NGO China Water Risk. At the heart of this water crisis are Asia’s ten major rivers […]
Read more »Liquidity Crisis – Does Asia Have Enough Water To Develop?
September 19th, 2018
Via China Water Risk, a detailed look at Asia’s water crisis: Asia faces serious and urgent water challenges ahead. Already today, two of its most populous countries, India and China, are water stressed and rampant water pollution from decades of rapid development has only further exacerbated water scarcity. Meanwhile, across the continent, water infrastructure, albeit […]
Read more »Water Is a Source of Growing Tension and Violence in the Middle East
August 28th, 2018
Via the World Resources Institute, commentary on the increasingly thirsty Middle East: In the hot, dry Middle East, where populations are growing rapidly and all major rivers cross political borders, water has become a focal point for escalating violence. From the foothills of the Taurus Mountains in Turkey that feed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers […]
Read more »The Water Crises Aren’t Coming—They’re Here
August 26th, 2018
Via Esquire, an interesting look at the world’s water crises: I. All the Water There Is Here’s a concept: paper water. Paper water is water the government grants certain farmers who are drawing water from a river or a watershed in, say, California. The phrase describes the water the farmer, under premium conditions, is entitled […]
Read more »Shallow Waters
August 18th, 2018
Via Quartz, an interesting look at how – in a warming world – the fight for water can push nations apart—or bring them together: Indus River Basin Lake Victoria The Nile River Basin Salween River Al Sag Aquifer Genevese Aquifer Nubian Aquifer North-west Sahara Aquifer The Rio Grande Valley of Texas is one of the fastest-growing places […]
Read more »Iran: The Regime Will Find a Way to Undermine Water Crisis Solutions
August 8th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, commentary on Iran’s water crisis: Iran’s water crisis has not occurred in a vacuum. To understand the crisis and how to fix it, a study that goes beyond the economics or the science of the water crisis is needed. A focus on institutions and political processes inside Iran is what problem […]
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