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Chile’s Private Solution For A Public Good
January 20th, 2017
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting look at Chile’s water management strategy: On paper, Chile can easily be considered a water-rich nation. The thin strip of land stretching along South America’s western coast boasts over 50,000 cubic meters (13 million gallons) of water per person per year. But looks can be deceiving. Much of […]
Read more »Black Markets & Blue Water: Zimbabwe Drought Gives Rise To Water Mafia
January 4th, 2017
Via Terra Daily, a report looking at how Zimbabwe’s water crisis has given rise to backdoor sellers: From jobless youths hired to dig wells to illegal sellers supplying water in buckets and large tanks, some enterprising Zimbabweans are cashing in on the country’s desperate water shortages. Zimbabwe’s long-standing water supply problems have been worsened by a […]
Read more »Suriname’s Plan To Fight the Caribbean’s Drought
November 24th, 2016
Via Bloomberg, a report on a plan in Suriname to tow a giant bag of water to fight the Caribbean’s drought: Auke Piek, a 44-year-old Dutch engineer, says he has a solution to the Caribbean’s worst drought in half a century — and it lies hundreds of miles away in the tropical rain forests of Suriname. This week, […]
Read more »The Rising Tide of Water Insecurity
November 16th, 2016
Via the Wilson Center’s New Security Beat, a look at how water problems, if they are prolonged enough, relate to and drive social instability: “Water is the frontline of climate change. It’s what every report that you see identifies as the sort of first and foremost effect we see from a climate changing world,” said […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India Top Court Orders Punjab State To Share River Water
November 11th, 2016
Via Daily Seed, a report that India’s top court has ordered Punjab state to share river water: India’s top court ordered authorities in northern Punjab state Thursday to share river water supplies with a neighbouring state, triggering a spate of resignations by angry lawmakers. The water dispute between Punjab and Haryana has been simmering for over […]
Read more »Liquidity Crisis
November 6th, 2016
Courtesy of The Economist, a detailed report on the world’s need to conserve water, use it more efficiently and establish clear rights over who owns it: “NOTHING is more useful than water,” observed Adam Smith, but “scarcely anything can be had in exchange for it.” The father of free-market economics noted this paradox in 18th-century […]
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