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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 […]
Read more »In Parched Sri Lanka, Biggest Shortage Is Of Water Policy
October 18th, 2016
Via Thomas Reuters Foundation, a look at Sri Lanka where – as the country cycles between floods and droughts – better water management is needed: In this village in southern Sri Lanka’s Hambantota District, water sales are big business. Beset by a prolonged dry spell and day-time temperatures reaching above 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees […]
Read more »Peak Salt: Is The Desalination Dream Over For The Gulf states?
September 30th, 2016
Via The Guardian, an interesting report on the Middle East’s desalination plants, where the more water they process, the less economically viable they become: Gulf states are among the most water-scarce in the world. With few freshwater resources and low rainfall, many countries have turned to desalination (where salt is removed from seawater) for their clean […]
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