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Egypt-Sudan Spat Muddies Prospects for Deal on Nile Dam
January 11th, 2018
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how talks are stalled over how to deal with the impact of a $5 billion dam that could threaten Egypt’s lifeblood: A diplomatic spat between Egypt and Sudan is spilling over into the long-running dispute over a dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile River, which Cairo sees as […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Flexes Its Control On The Mekong
January 11th, 2018
Via The Asia Times, an article on how the recent Mekong-Lancang Cooperation summit did more to facilitate Beijing’s economic penetration than address the waterway’s many problems: Was it truly worth Chinese Premier Li Keqiang traveling all the way to Phnom Penh for the second Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC) summit? As the MLC leaders’ meeting closed on Wednesday, […]
Read more »Egypt: Building Huge Water Treatment Plant Amid Supply Concerns
January 9th, 2018
Via Terra Daily, a report on Egypt’s plan to build a major water treatment and desalination plant: Egypt is building a major water treatment and desalination plant, the president said Monday, as the Nile-dependent nation plans for any fallout from an upstream dam being built by Ethiopia. The North African country is constructing “the largest […]
Read more »Egypt Wants ‘Sudan Out’ of Contentious Dam Talks
January 3rd, 2018
Via Al Jazeera, a report on the increasingly contentious talks over the Nile and the Grand Renaissance Dam: Egypt has proposed excluding Sudan from contentious negotiations over the future of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the largest hydroelectric dam project in Africa, according to an Ethiopian newspaper. The Egyptian proposal, sent by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to Hailemariam Desalegn, Ethiopia’s prime […]
Read more »Rising Tensions Around The Nile
January 1st, 2018
Via Strategic Culture, an article on rising tensions related to the Nile: Tensions between Cairo and Addis Ababa have risen recently to set alarm bells ringing. Ministers from Ethiopia and Egypt met on Dec.26 in an attempt to resolve a dispute over the Construction of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Once more the nations failed to reach […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: In Kashmir, India and Pakistan Race to Tap the Himalayas
December 20th, 2017
Via The Times of India, an article on India and Pakistan’s rivalry on the Neelum River which underlines both countries’ unquenchable need for freshwater: Several hundred metres underground, thousands of labourers grind away day and night on a mammoth hydroelectric project in contested Kashmir, where India and Pakistan are racing to tap the subcontinent’s diminishing […]
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