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Coming Water Wars?
February 25th, 2013
Via CNN’s Global Public Square, a look at the possibility of water wars: Imagine a large body of water – about the size of the Dead Sea – simply disappearing. It sounds like a science fiction movie. But it’s not. It’s happening in real life – and we’ve only just found out. A pioneering study […]
Read more »Will Water Shortages Unleash Instability In The Middle East?
February 22nd, 2013
Via The International, a report on water tensions in the Middle East: A NASA study, released last Friday, indicates that water shortages could affect millions in the Middle East. Images, captured by NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, reveal significant water loss, in a period of six years, in the Tigris and […]
Read more »FAO Infographic: Water Scarcity
February 19th, 2013
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Read more »Groundwater Pumping A Major Cause Of Declining Water Storage In The Middle East
February 17th, 2013
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on how the Middle East is headed towards a water shortage crisis, as NASA satellites show that reserves the size of the Dead Sea have been depleted in just seven years, largely due to well-drilling: Variations in total water storage from normal in the Tigris and Euphrates river […]
Read more »South Sudan: Tension Over Water Rights Boils Over Into Conflict
February 10th, 2013
Via CNN, a sad report of how tension of water rights bubbled over into outright localized conflict recently: A heavily armed militia attacked tribesmen during a weekend cattle drive in strife-wracked South Sudan, a government official reported Sunday, leaving behind dozens of dead and possibly kidnapping hundreds of others. Unarmed civilians “were murdered in cold […]
Read more »Where The World Is Running Out Of Water
January 28th, 2013
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an interesting graphic on where the world is running out of water: Many of the world’s most important food-producing regions depend on freshwater from massive underground aquifers that have built up over thousands of years. The Ogallala Aquifer in the midwestern United States. The Upper Ganges, sustaining India and Pakistan. […]
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