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Melting The Geopolitical Ice In South Asia
July 23rd, 2013
Via the July 2013 issue of Asia Policy, an interesting article by Robert Wirsing: No one doubts that the six mainland states of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC)—Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan—harbor an abundance of varied water-resource problems, with a steadily mounting scarcity of freshwater ranking high among them. Because […]
Read more »Malawi: Can Oil And Water Mix?
July 21st, 2013
Courtesy of Eurasia Review, an article on regional water tensions arising from Malawi’s efforts to develop its mineral sector: Civil society’s shorthand for Malawi’s drive to expand its extractive resource sector is T2 – “trouble or treasureâ€. While Malawi has dabbled in mineral exploitation in the past, it only formed a mining and minerals ministry […]
Read more »World Water Wars: In The West Bank, Water Is Just Another Conflict Issue For Israelis And Palestinians
July 21st, 2013
Via The International Business Times, an article on water tensions in the Middle East: Bedouin Falah Hedawa draws water from a rainwater collection cistern in the Rashayida area, in the desert between the West Bank town of Bethlehem and the Dead Sea. The cisterns dotting the desert beyond Bethlehem, many of them restored to full […]
Read more »South Sudan: Dams, Droughts, Desertification and Water Wars
July 9th, 2013
Courtesy of AllAfrica, a look at South Sudan’s water woes: Water, not oil, will determine the economic fate and well-being of Sudan and South Sudan. In many African countries, sewage, mud and other contaminants compromise water, health and food security. But desertification, drought and violence are crippling these two recently divorced nations. In the Darfur […]
Read more »Bhutan: Banking On ‘White Gold’ Hydropower
July 8th, 2013
Via Energy Daily, an interesting article on Bhutan’s hydropower ambitions: Home to meditating monks and Himalayan nomads, the sleepy kingdom of Bhutan has set its sights on becoming an unlikely energy powerhouse thanks to its abundant winding rivers. Hydropower plants have already harnessed the country’s water flows to light up nearly every Bhutanese home, generating […]
Read more »The Real Threat To Our Future Is Peak Water
July 6th, 2013
Via The Guardian, a look at a new essay from Lester Brown noting that wells are drying up and underwater tables falling so fast in the Middle East and parts of India, China and the US that food supplies are seriously threatened: Kansas’s Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in 2012, during the worst drought in the […]
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