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GERD Unlocked: Ethiopia’s Mega-Dam Starts Generating Electricity
February 20th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on GERD’s power generation and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed efforts to assure Egypt and Sudan that water flows downstream will not be affected: Ethiopia has started to generate electricity from what is set to be Africa’s largest dam on the Blue Nile — an icon of national pride that […]
Read more »Ethiopia Warns It Won’t Wait Forever Over Nile Dam Dispute
February 20th, 2022
Via Al Monitor, an article on the Ethiopian foreign minister’s criticism of Egypt’s and Sudan’s attempt to prevent operation of the Nile megadam: Amid the stalled negotiations on Ethiopia’s controversial dam it is building on the Blue Nile, the main tributary of the Nile River, recent Ethiopian remarks have escalated the dispute with Egypt and Sudan. In an […]
Read more »Wells Run Dry For Thousands of Arizona Families
February 6th, 2022
Via Modeshift, an article on Arizona’s freshwater crisis: Three weeks into a trip to Arizona to report on the state’s magnifying water-scarce condition I’m becoming more expert in a contemporary American story that pits a state’s unyielding capitalist model of growth against Mother Earth’s power to change the rules of the game. In its basic […]
Read more »Egypt Pushes To Revive Stalled Negotiations Over Nile Dam
January 30th, 2022
Via Al Monitor, an article on how Egypt is calling for the swift resumption of negotiations over the controversial Ethiopian dam, as the new US envoy to the Horn of Africa lands in Cairo for the first time since his appointment: Egypt has recently called on Ethiopia to swiftly resume negotiations over the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Is Running Out of Water and That’s Scary for Asia
January 29th, 2022
Via Bloomberg, an opinion piece looking at how – of all Bejing’s problems (demographic decline, a stifling political climate, the stalling or reversal of economic reforms) dwindling natural resources may be the most urgent: Nature and geopolitics can interact in nasty ways. The historian Geoffrey Parker has argued that changing weather patterns drove war, revolution and upheaval during a long […]
Read more »First Nations Want A Say In How Dwindling Colorado River Is Used
January 25th, 2022
Via Circle of Blue, a look at the role the First Nations are seeking in discussions related to the Colorado River: Lorenzo Pena pulls off the highway and into a drive-through water distribution center on the Southern Ute Indian Tribe reservation in southwest Colorado. He parks his truck and connects the empty tank it’s hauling […]
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