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Support For UN Water Treaty Accelerates
September 8th, 2012
Via Circle of Blue, a look at how progress on the UN Water Treaty, which deals with transboundary water basins, or those shared by two or more countries, had stalled — until a major conservation group got involved: According to researchers at Oregon State University, there are 276 river basins that are shared by two […]
Read more »Water Politics: Rising To The Top Of The Global Agenda
September 8th, 2012
Via the Irish Times, an article on water politics: THE POLITICS of water will loom large in international affairs this century. This is emerging under the influence of climate change, unequal access to water between richer and poorer peoples, intensifying agricultural and industrial use and transboundary conflicts. Looking at world politics through the lens of […]
Read more »Squeezing Africa Dry
August 31st, 2012
Courtesy of GRAIN.org, a look at the scramble for water in Africa: Food cannot be grown without water. In Africa, one in three people endure water scarcity and climate change will make things worse. Building on Africa’s highly sophisticated indigenous water management systems could help resolve this growing crisis, but these very systems are being […]
Read more »Mekong Dams Could Rob Millions Of Primary Protein Source
August 30th, 2012
Via WWF, a report on the potential impact that hydropower dams on the Mekong could have upon food sources for millions of people: Hydropower dams planned for the lower mainstem of the Mekong River could decimate fish populations and with them the primary source of protein for 60 million people. The impact of the dams […]
Read more »Water Strife: Leading To Water Conflict?
August 30th, 2012
Courtesy of Global Geopolitics, an article on the potential of water strife to manifest itself into all out conflict: As the world faces possible water scarcities in the next two to three decades, the U.S. intelligence community has already portrayed a grim scenario for the foreseeable future: ethnic conflicts, regional tensions, political instability and even […]
Read more »Global Water Demand By 2050
August 30th, 2012
Via Big Picture Agriculture, an interesting graphic from the OECD: Right now there is a lot in the news about future water shortages because of the World Water Week meeting being held in Stockholm August 26-31, 2012. The OECD graph above shows how and where water needs will increase by 55 percent between 2000 and […]
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