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The Looming Threat Of Water Scarcity
April 21st, 2013
Via Vital Signs, a sobering look at the world’s water challenges ahead: Some 1.2 billion people—almost one fifth of the world—live in areas of physical water scarcity, while another 1.6 billion face what can be called economic water shortage.1 The situation is only expected to worsen as population growth, climate change, investment and management shortfalls, and […]
Read more »United Nations: Water As Vital To National Security As Defense
April 15th, 2013
Via Reuters, a report on global water stress: Stresses on water supplies aggravated by climate change are likely to cause more conflicts and water should be considered as vital to national security as defense, the United Nations report said on Friday. About 145 nations share river basins with their neighbors and need to promote cooperation […]
Read more »Water Can Be Fought Over Or Shared, But Cooperation Brings More Benefits For All
April 4th, 2013
Via Circle of Blue, some interesting commentary on water by Michel Jarraud, chair of UN-Water and Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization: Water is a shared resource. Our planet counts nearly 276 transboundary basins and as many transboundary aquifers. Globally, 148 countries share at least one basin with one or several countries. Access to clean […]
Read more »Burma – Emerging from International Isolation – Pursues Major Hydroelectric Plans
March 26th, 2013
Via Oil Price.com, a look at Myanmar’s hydroelectric plans and the regional impact of such: What a difference two years makes. Since Burma’s junta in March 2011 allowed a nominally civilian government led by President Thein Sein, who had previously served as a general and then prime minister under the junta, Western governments and energy […]
Read more »Are African Land Grabs Really Water Grabs?
March 26th, 2013
Via CNN, an interesting article on whether overseas investors to Africa have been actually buying water rather than land access: Millions of hectares of land have been acquired in the past few years across Africa by investors who are moving into large-scale agriculture to take advantage of potential windfall gains. Popularly these deals have become […]
Read more »The Looming Threat Of Water Scarcity
March 26th, 2013
Via Worldwatch Institute, a new report on the global water scarcity crisis: Some 1.2 billion people—almost a fifth of the world—live in areas of physical water scarcity, while another 1.6 billion face what can be called economic water shortage. The situation is only expected to worsen as population growth, climate change, investment and management shortfalls, […]
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