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A Global Treaty on Rivers: Key to True Water Security
November 21st, 2012
Via Yale’s Environment360, a report on the possibility that two separate global river treaties are close to being approved: Is peace about to break out on the world’s rivers? It is amazing that until now there has been no global agreement on sharing international rivers. From the Mekong to the Jordan and the Niger to […]
Read more »In Southeast Asia, Big Dams Raise Big Concerns
November 11th, 2012
Courtesy of the Council On Foreign Relations, an interesting article on dam tensions in Asia: A view from upstream of Malaysia’s Bakun dam, in the inland of the eastern state of Sarawak on Borneo island, December 11, 2003. These past few weeks have not been good ones for large dam projects in Southeast Asia. […]
Read more »Water Security Conflicts: A Regional Perspective
October 31st, 2012
Via the Small Wars Journal, an interesting report on likely water security conflict areas in the years ahead: On the 1st of April 2014, the world was caught off guard when the Syrian Air Force attacked the power plant facilities at Karkamis Dam in the upstream of the Euphrates River 4.5 kilometers north of the […]
Read more »Emerging Asia Hits A Wall Of Water
October 19th, 2012
Via Forbes, an interesting report on the impending water stress facing Asia: It’s often said that people are a nation’s greatest resource. That can be true, especially with their knowledge and creativity, which can supplement physical resources. But one basic must is hard to think your way around: water. So it is that the great […]
Read more »Scarce Water Threatens Lima’s Growth
September 28th, 2012
Via MarketWatch, an article examining the impact of water scarcity on Lima’s growth: Growing constraints on water in Lima are threatening to derail business activity in the Peruvian capital, a key hub of the country’s decade-long economic boom. Water provisions in Lima, the world’s second-biggest desert city after Cairo, Egypt, are stretched due to increasing […]
Read more »World Is At Risk Of “Water Bankruptcy,†Warns UN
September 27th, 2012
Courtesy of OOSKA News, an article on the UN’s concerns over global water shortages: Many parts of the globe are facing “water bankruptcy,†as human and ecologically induced pressures accelerate depletion of river basins, lakes, aquifers and wetlands, according to a new UN report. The new report, “Science-Policy Bridges over Troubled Waters,†produced by the […]
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