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Egypt Forced To Negotiate On Nile Dam
March 22nd, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of the planned agreement between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan on Nile water cooperation: Fields in Egypt along the banks of a Nile distributary, the Rosetta river, 40 kilometers North of Cairo. Summary Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will travel to Addis Ababa on March 23 to address Ethiopian lawmakers […]
Read more »Damming The Mekong River
March 21st, 2015
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting graphical look at the nearly one dozen dams are planned for the main steam of the Lower Mekong River: The Mekong River begins at the Tibetan Plateau in China and stretches through Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, before ending at the South China Sea in Vietnam. Eager […]
Read more »Nile Dam Talks: Preliminary Agreement
March 6th, 2015
Via Reuters, a report on the three-party discussions over the Renaissance Dam: The three main countries that share the Nile River’s waters have reached a preliminary agreement on a mechanism for operating the Renaissance Dam, the Egyptian water minister said on Friday. The planned $4 billion Renaissance Dam will be Africa’s biggest dam and aims […]
Read more »Meltdown In Tibet
January 26th, 2015
Via the Daily Pioneer, a review of an interesting book entitled Meltdown in Tibet: André Malraux, the famous French Philosopher and General de Gaulle’s Culture Minister once said, ‘The 21st century will be spiritual or will not be’. Without denying the role that spirituality can play in the present planetary crisis, it is obvious that […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Diverting The Indus To Xinjiang
January 11th, 2015
Via Claude Arpi, some interesting commentary on a possible Chinese plan to divert the Indus river towards Xinjiang: On Christmas Day, The New York Times reported: “Within a few days, water that has traveled more than 800 miles for two weeks in one of the world’s most ambitious, and controversial, engineering projects is expected to […]
Read more »Water Politics In The Tigris-Euphrates Basin
January 5th, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of issues related to headwater management in the Tigris-Euphrates basin: Controlling the headwaters of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin gives Turkey leverage over its neighbors’ water security. Turkey has talked about utilizing its water resources since the country’s founding, but only since the mid-20th century has the government actively worked […]
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