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Water Wars: Conflicts Of Future Likely To Be Sparked By Climate Change
September 18th, 2014
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at how climate change may spark conflicts over resources like water: To the long list of the world’s woes, add another: the growing impact of climate change, which could heighten tensions among nations and even spark new wars. That’s the grim assessment of the government’s new National Intelligence Strategy, […]
Read more »In Middle East, It Could Soon Be A Battle For Water
August 18th, 2014
Via Down To Earth, an interesting article on how, along with scarcity induced by population pressure, use of water as a weapon of war is also draining resources in the Middle East: Raining rockets and bombs or threat of Islamic State (IS) jihadists are not the only emergencies in the countries of West Asia. The […]
Read more »Water, Power, And Competition In Asia
August 18th, 2014
In Asian Survey’s Vol. 54, No. 4 (July/August 2014), a new article by Brahma Chellaney examining how Asia is at a defining moment in its history, with water stress having emerged as one of its most serious challenges, stirring not only geopolitical tensions by intensifying competition over the resources of shared rivers and aquifers, but […]
Read more »Humanity May Face Choice By 2040: Conventional Energy Or Drinking Water
August 6th, 2014
Via OilPrice.com, a sobering commentary on the impending watergy crisis: A set of studies based on three years of research concludes that by 2040, the need for drinking water and water for use in energy production will create dire shortages. Conventional electricity generation is the largest source of water use in most countries. Water is […]
Read more »Worldwide Water Shortage By 2040
July 29th, 2014
Via new reports published by Aarhus University, some sobering thoughts regarding the world’s use of water for the production of electricity: Two new reports that focus on the global electricity water nexus have just been published. Three years of research show that by the year 2040 there will not be enough water in the world […]
Read more »How To Avert A Thirsty Future
July 15th, 2014
Via the Globe & Mail, interesting commentary from Brahma Chellaney (a geostrategist and the author, most recently, of Water, Peace and War) on the global water crisis: There is a tongue-in-cheek saying in America – attributed to Mark Twain, who lived through the early phase of the California Water Wars – that “whisky is for […]
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