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Water Wars: Just Around The Corner?
May 28th, 2014
Via The Guardian, commentary on the potential that growing pressure on water resources could worsen existing war and lead to new ones: Water wars could be a real prospect in coming years as states struggle with the effects of climate change, growing demand for water and declining resources, the secretary of state for energy and […]
Read more »The World’s Water Scarcity Problem Is Bad And Getting Worse
May 19th, 2014
Via the Business Insider, a report on the globe’s water scarcity crisis: The next time your throat is as dry as a bone and the Sun is beating down, take a glass of clean, cool water. Savor it. Sip by sip. Vital and appreciated as that water is, it will be even more precious to […]
Read more »Water Wars? Think Again: Conflict Over Freshwater Structural Rather Than Strategic
April 22nd, 2014
Via New Security Beat, some interesting commentary on the potential for water wars: The global water wars are almost upon us! At least that’s how it seems to many. The signs are troubling: Egypt and Ethiopia have recently increased their aggressive posture and rhetoric over the construction of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Drilling Holes In The Top Of The World
April 9th, 2014
Via Quartz, a report on how China’s appetite for resources is taking them to Tibet: Take a picture; it may not look like this for long. Chinese oil and gas explorers have drilled a deep borehole in the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s largest and highest plateau at about 4,500m above sea level, according to the South China Morning Post. The project, whose […]
Read more »IPCC Report Warns Of Increased Risks Associated With Water Insecurity
March 30th, 2014
Via The Guardian, a look at the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that discusses risks associated with water insecurity, due for example to shrinking of glaciers that act as key water resources for various regions around the world, and through changing precipitation patterns: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just published its latest […]
Read more »The Myitsone Tug Of War
March 6th, 2014
Via The Guardian, an update on the controversial Myitsone dam project, at the headwaters of the Irrawaddy, which is caught in tug of war between the state and a Chinese corporation: Children looking at the Myitsone dam from the banks of the Irrawaddy River, Kachin state, Burma. Lapai Zoong kicks the red dirt outside […]
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