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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 »A Parched Future: Global Land And Water Grabbing
January 9th, 2013
Via 3Quarks Daily, a look at the convergence of land and water grabbing worldwide: Land grabbing refers to the large-scale acquisition of comparatively inexpensive agricultural land in foreign countries by foreign governments or corporations. In most cases, the acquired land is located in under-developed countries in Africa, Asia or South America, while the grabbers are […]
Read more »U.S. Water Politics: Conservation Vs. Infrastructure
January 4th, 2013
Via Chance of Rain, an interesting look at politics surrounding the conservation vs. infrastructure movement in the United States: WHAT western water managers preach and what western water managers do is often contradictory. This much can be relied on: inconsistency starts at the top. Only this month a long-awaited report issued by the federal Bureau […]
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