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Water Scarcity Hotspots Shifting
July 11th, 2017
Via SciDevNet, a look at how dams, reservoirs and irrigation schemes are causing water scarcity hotspots to shift: Reservoirs, dams and irrigation systems have shifted global patterns of water scarcity over three decades, “causing a distinct pattern of beneficiaries and losers”, according to recent research. The study, published in June in Nature Communications, shows that these interventions have increased water […]
Read more »Water Issues Could Escalate Inter-Korean Tension
July 6th, 2017
Via The Korea Times, a report on the potential for water issues to escalate tension between the Koreas: Climate change is creating water scarcity around the world, and Korea is not an exception, especially considering inter-Korean relations. “If North Korea releases water from a dam, it can change the water course,” said Ashok Swain, a […]
Read more »Water Conflicts Over Centuries and Millennia
July 4th, 2017
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a transcript of a short video documenting water conflict across history: With stories from around the world, we’re revealing the challenges and the solutions from the frontlines of the fast-growing competition between water, food, and energy in a changing climate. And quite literally, water, or lack thereof, is often at […]
Read more »Water Innovations Crucial As Arab Nations Address Climate Change
July 4th, 2017
Via the FAO, a brief look at the importance of fostering water use innovations in Arab countries: Arab states must continue to seek innovations to overcome water scarcity in the face of climate change, said UN Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General José Graziano da Silva at an event co-hosted by the Arab League on the […]
Read more »Why Hydro Politics Will Shape The 21st Century
June 24th, 2017
Courtesy of BBC, a look at how – in the coming decades – the supply of water has the potential to influence geopolitics, diplomacy and even conflict: The 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace pits 007 against an evil criminal syndicate bent on global domination. Sounds par for the course… but this particular network […]
Read more »The Relentless March of Drought – ‘Horseman of the Apocalypse’?
June 8th, 2017
Via Inter Press Service, a sobering article on water scarcity and drought: By 2025 –that’s in less than 8 years from today– 1.8 billion people will experience absolute water scarcity, and two thirds of the world will be living under water-stressed conditions. Now it is feared that advancing drought and deserts, growing water scarcity and […]
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