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Pakistan: Caught Between Floods, Drought, and Politics
August 22nd, 2010
Via The Financial Times, a report on the challenges – short- and long-term – facing Pakistan over water. As the article notes: “…The Indus has not been kind to Mohammed Maitlo. His one-acre farm in Pakistan received so little water for irrigation this year that his wheat crop was stunted. Then the river burst its […]
Read more »The Tale of Two Rivers: Mekong and Columbia
July 31st, 2010
Courtesy of WaterWired, an interesting comparison of how the Mekong River is managed across political boundaries to the Columbia River (which some consider as being ‘backwards’ from the Mekong in that the larger, more powerful country (hegemon) is the downstream riparian). As the report notes: A few days ago we hosted visitors from the four […]
Read more »Indus Water Treaty: Poised To Burst?
July 27th, 2010
Courtesy of Toronto’s Globe & Mail, an interesting follow-on report on whether the venerable Indus Water Treaty is still adequate to deal with modern water disputes. As the article notes: “…The last time water issues pushed India and Pakistan to the brink of armed conflict was half a century ago, when Bashir Ahmad Malik was […]
Read more »Pakistan: Drinking Dust
July 25th, 2010
Courtesy of The Globe and Mail, an interesting look at the challenges posed by the shrinking water resources in the Indus Basin and the emergence of a risky geopolitical environmental crisis. As the article notes: “…The Indus looks nothing like the mighty river from history books. Alexander the Great once sailed galleys along these waters; […]
Read more »Simmering Dispute Over Nile Heating Up
July 19th, 2010
Courtesy of Yale’s e360, an interesting report on the simmering dispute over who owns the waters of the River Nile which is heating up. As the article notes: “…From its headwaters in Ethiopia and the central African highlands to the downstream regional superpower Egypt, the Nile flows through 10 nations. But by a quirk of […]
Read more »Himalayan Rivers Of Ice Run Dry
July 16th, 2010
Via The Economist, a report on a breathtaking new exhibit at the Asia Society in New York which suggests that the earth’s Third Pole – the massive Himalayan ice towers - are undergoing dramatic change as a result of climate change.  As the article notes: “…David Breashears, a legendary mountaineer and cinematographer, and his team […]
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