BLOG
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. […]
Read more »UNESCO: No Evidence Of Coming Water Wars
January 22nd, 2013
Via UNESCO, a study on international water basins: Strikingly, the territory of 148 nations falls within international basins and more than 30 countries are located almost entirely within these basins. In all, there are 276 international basins. These cover around 45% of the Earth’s land surface, host about 40% of the world’s population and account […]
Read more »International Cooperation Over Water Outweighs Conflict
January 22nd, 2013
Via UNESCO, a report that international cooperation over water far outweighs conflict: Researchers at Oregon State University have compiled a dataset of every reported interaction, be it conflictive or cooperative, between two or more nations where water was the driver of the interaction. Their analysis highlighted four key findings. First, despite the potential for dispute […]
Read more »Role Of Institutions In Water Politics And Water Security
January 22nd, 2013
Via the Universities Council on Water Resources, an academic look at how identifying the resilient factors within a system may reduce water security concerns and enhance cooperation: Water security is the availability of freshwater in the right quantity and quality, at the right times, for dependent systems. This is a prerequisite for human and environmental […]
Read more »Water Supply Crises Listed High On The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2013 Report
January 13th, 2013
Via Takadu, highlights of a recent World Economic Forum report: The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2013 report is developed from an annual survey of over 1,000 experts from industry, government, academia and civil society who were asked to review a landscape of 50 global risks. The global risk that respondents rated most likely to manifest over the […]
Read more »