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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 […]
Read more »Water Pacts Re-Examined Amid Arab Spring
June 16th, 2012
Via Terra Daily, a look at water stress in the Middle East: Amid the profound political changes sweeping the Arab world, there are moves to rewrite contentious water-sharing agreements that are becoming a major source of friction in the Middle East as water supplies shrink. In May, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned his neighbors, […]
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