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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 […]
Read more »Major Water Disputes Are Often Beyond War and Peace
September 20th, 2016
Via the Wilson Center’s New Security Beat, an interesting look at the state of affairs that characterize many important share water basins around the world: Early this June, the Israeli government cut off drinking water to people living in the Salfit region of the West Bank and three villages east of Nablus. The consequences have been dire. […]
Read more »Watering The Middle East
September 15th, 2016
Via Project Syndicate, commentary on MENA’s water challenges: The United Nations World Water Development Report confirms what many already know: hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – especially in Algeria, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen – have faced the worst water shortages in decades in 2016. This […]
Read more »Asia-Pacific: ‘Hot Spot For Water Insecurity’
September 6th, 2016
Via SciDev, a look at the stress on Asia-Pacific water resources from rising demand from users and an examination of how food growers have to compete for water with households, industries, power plants: Economies in the Asia-Pacific region cannot sustain their present dynamic growth “unless water is brought into the equation” as […]
Read more »S. Asia Water Basin Supports 750 million, But 60% Is Contaminated
August 30th, 2016
Via Nature World News, a sobering report on Asia’s water contamination crisis: A water crisis has hit southern Asia, but breaks with current global trends and is not caused by depletion of the resource. A large river basin is the main source of groundwater for more than 750 million people in Pakistan, India, Nepal and […]
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