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Water Maps Spark Concern About “Liquid Gold Rush”
July 29th, 2012
Via AlertNet, an article on a global initiative to map water availability: As competition for clean water grows, some of the world’s biggest companies have joined forces to create unprecedented maps of the liquid gold that flows beneath our feet. The Aqueduct Alliance, which allows users to create maps by combining hydrological data with geographically […]
Read more »Regions Where Water Disputes Are Fuelling Tensions
July 23rd, 2012
Courtesy of AlertNet, a summary of a few of the regions where competition for water from major rivers systems is fuelling tension: SOUTH ASIA India is home to three major river systems — the Ganges, Brahmaputra and the Indus — which support 700 million people. As an upstream nation, it controls water flows to Bangladesh […]
Read more »South Asia: Dam Disputes And Water Tension
July 23rd, 2012
Via AlertNet, a look at South Asia water tensions: Engineers and workers work at the tunnels of Kishanganga power project in Gurez, 160 km (99 miles) north of Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, June 21, 2012. Â As the silver waters of the Kishanganga rush through this north Kashmir valley, Indian labourers are hard at work on a […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon And Parched Tiger: An Urbanized World That Is Short Of Water … Or Soon Will Be
July 19th, 2012
Via All Roads Lead to China, a look at a recent HBR report titled Where the Next Wave of Urban Growth Will Come which looked, among other things, at municipal water demand by the year 2025:
Read more »The Water Rich Vs. The Water Poor
July 17th, 2012
Via Hydro-Logic, an interesting infographic on the water rich vs. the water poor:
Read more »Water Supplies Pass Tipping Point: Sharing Shortages… Not Water
July 16th, 2012
Via the San Diego Union-Tribune, a sobering article on the global water crisis: Miles upstream from where the Colorado River once delivered Rocky Mountain snowmelt to the Gulf of California, a string of empty pipes marks its end in the sands of northern Mexico. The concrete tubes — each big enough for a grade-schooler to […]
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