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Egypt Girds Itself for the GERD
September 10th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how Egypt is responding to its lost of majority control of the Nile River: Ethiopia opened Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, ending Egypt’s majority control of the Nile River. The controversial $5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which took 14 years to build, aims to double Ethiopia’s power generation […]
Read more »Is Southern California Prepared to Avoid a ‘Day Zero’ Water Crisis?
September 9th, 2025
Via the Los Angeles Times, a look at whether Southern California is prepared to avoid a ‘Day Zero’ water crisis? Over the last century, Southern California has grown and thrived by accessing water from faraway sources including the Colorado River, the Eastern Sierra’s streams and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Massive aqueducts transport water through […]
Read more »The Rio Grande’s Pecan Problem
September 9th, 2025
Via High Country News, commentary on how Big Ag is threatening New Mexico’s water supply: Green is not the color one expects to see in the cactus-and-yucca-dotted Chihuahuan Desert of southern New Mexico. But for more than a hundred miles along the I-25 corridor, between Truth or Consequences and the Texas border, a rich vein […]
Read more »The Promise and Peril of Ethiopia’s New Mega Dam
September 8th, 2025
Via The Economist, a report on the potential regional impact of the GERD: WHEN ETHIOPIA inaugurates the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile on September 9th, it will be Africa’s largest hydropower source (see map). But to Ethiopians, millions of whom helped pay for it by buying shares, it is far more than […]
Read more »Ethiopia ‘Outfoxes Egypt’ over the Nile’s Waters with its Mighty Dam
September 8th, 2025
Via BBC, commentary on Ethiopia’s official inauguration of the Grand Renaissance Dam: After outfoxing Egypt on the diplomatic stage for more than a decade, Ethiopia is set to officially inaugurate one of the world’s biggest dams on a tributary of the River Nile, burying a colonial-era treaty that saw the UK guarantee the North African […]
Read more »Indus Waters Treaty: From Cooperative Vision to Calculated Confrontation
September 4th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at how – instead of believing that strategic patience would breed stability – the Modi government’s strategic escalation has made Indus water flows a tool of coercive diplomacy: The Indus Waters Treaty, once described as a treaty that withstood three wars between India and Pakistan, is receiving much flak after […]
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