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Global Water Scarcity Predicted To Rise By 40%
December 18th, 2013
Via the Sydney Morning Herald, a sobering report on global water stress: Global water scarcity already on the rise due to exploding global populations may be amplified by up to 40 per cent due to climate change. Research carried out by the German-based Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has found significantly more people throughout […]
Read more »Water: Commodity Of The 21st Century
December 13th, 2013
Via the Guardian, an interesting article on how NGOs, businesses and governments are collaborating to tackle the water, food, energy nexus: “Water is going to be the commodity of the 21st century.” So said Richard Sandor, inventor of financial futures and all-round financial guru a few weeks ago in the City, while an audience of […]
Read more »UN Transboundary Water Treaty Moves Forward As Cote d’Ivoire Approves Ratification
November 30th, 2013
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report noting that though three more ratifications are needed before the UN Watercourses Convention has the force of law, advocates assert that four countries are close: Ireland, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam. The Volta River watershed covers six countries in West Africa including Cote d’Ivoire, which recently ratified […]
Read more »Arab World Sinks Deeper Into Water Crisis
November 30th, 2013
Via Global Geopolitics, a report on the ever increasing Middle Eastern water crisis: A forward osmosis desalination plant at Al Khaluf in Oman. The Arab world is widely perceived as blessed with an embarrassment of riches: an abundance of oil (Saudi Arabia), one of the world’s highest per capita incomes (Qatar), and home to the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s New Leadership Faces A Water Security Challenge
November 27th, 2013
Courtesy of Future Directions International, a report on China’s recently concluded China’s Third Plenum and, despite early signals indicate a shift towards more balanced development, the unlikeliness that environmental reform will be sufficient to avert the nation’s burgeoning food and water security crises: Background The Third Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party […]
Read more »Global Risk Of Water Shortages
November 18th, 2013
Via Quartz, an interesting comment from John McLaughlin (retired CIA Deputy Director) on what really worries him – global water shortages: Speaking of contamination, one thing we take for granted in the U.S. is clean, safe drinking water, but much of the world doesn’t have that luxury. The OECD projects that by 2030, close to […]
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