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Global Water Shortages To Deliver ‘Severe Hit’ To Economies, World Bank Warns
May 4th, 2016
Courtesy of The Guardian, an article on a recent World Bank report which suggests that the Middle East, north Africa, central Asia and south Asia are due to suffer biggest economic hit from water scarcity as climate change takes hold: Water shortages will deliver a “severe hit” to the economies of the Middle East, central […]
Read more »Asia’s Troubled Waters
April 22nd, 2016
Via Project Syndicate, a look at Asia’s growing water challenge: Asia’s water woes are worsening. Already the world’s driest continent in per capitaterms, Asia now faces a severe drought that has parched a vast region extending from southern Vietnam to central India. This has exacerbated political tensions, because it has highlighted the impact of China’s dam-building policy on […]
Read more »Why World Leaders Are Concerned By Water Shortages
April 14th, 2016
Via Mother Jones, commentary on the world’s powers’ growing concern over water scarcity: Villagers ride donkeys to get water in Yemen in 2012. Yemen is one of the most arid countries in the world and relies almost exclusively on groundwater and rainfall for its water supply. This story was originally published by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting […]
Read more »Climate Change Dries Up Nicaragua
April 6th, 2016
Via the Inter Press Service, a report on Nicaragua: A three-year drought, added to massive deforestation in the past few decades, has dried up most of Nicaragua’s water sources and has led to an increasingly severe water supply crisis. Since January, photos and videos showing dried-up streams, rivers and lakes have been all over the […]
Read more »Asia’s Water Crisis: High Risk Of Severe Water Stress By 2050
March 30th, 2016
Via MIT, another look at Asia’s water challenges: Economic and population growth on top of climate change could lead to serious water shortages across a broad swath of Asia by the year 2050, a newly published study by MIT scientists has found. The study deploys detailed modeling to produce what the researchers believe is a full […]
Read more »Water: A Wellspring Of Conflict?
March 23rd, 2016
Via Strife, commentary exploring the role of water in human conflict and politics: Water wars; they seem inevitable in an age of non-traditional security threats and problems such as climate change requiring collective action. But water is rarely a single cause of conflict. Certainly, water can be a stress multiplier in a conflict, but violent […]
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