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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 […]
Read more »Why Managing The Politics Of Water Matters
March 22nd, 2016
Via the Japan Times, commentary on managing the politics of water: This year’s World Water Day, on March 22, provides an opportunity to highlight what in many countries has become a grim reality: The availability of fresh water is increasingly a defining strategic factor in regional and global affairs. Unless water resources are managed with […]
Read more »Southern Africa: Water Options Drying Up
March 8th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of southern Africa’s water challenges: Extreme drought and low commodity prices are crippling economies across southern Africa. For much of the past decade, China’s rapid growth led to a massive demand for raw materials, the export of which African governments rely on for revenue. But as China’s economy has […]
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