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Water: The Key Element In The India-Pakistan Rivalry
July 15th, 2010
Via AFP.com, a report on the continuing tension between India and Pakistan over water. As the article notes: “…For Pakistani farmer Ghulam Sarwar, only war with India can overcome the water shortages parching his crops and drying up his profits. His family owns 85 acres (34 hectares) in northern Punjab, traditionally the bread basket of […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Dammed If They Do; Damned If They Don’t
July 11th, 2010
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at the rising (water) tension between China and its neighbors over China’s planned hydroelectric projects. As the article notes: “IN YUNNAN in south-west China the biggest floods in a dozen years have ended a long, brutal drought. For months here in Xishuangbanna, a glassy Mekong had merely sauntered towards […]
Read more »Geopolitics of the Aral Sea
June 18th, 2010
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting video analysis of the geopolitics of a drying Aral Sea.
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s ‘Long Haul” To Slake the North’s Thirst
June 13th, 2010
Courtesy of IEEE’s Spectrum magazine, a detailed look at China’s ambitious plans to address its water scarcity issues: “…In 1952, Mao Zedong visited the great rushing rivers of China’s south and suggested that the thirsty north “borrow” some. Thus was born the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Nearly 60 years later, construction is under way on […]
Read more »A Nile Basin Cooperative Framework …Sans Egypt
May 22nd, 2010
Via Terra Daily, a report that while four of the seven upstream Nile Basin Initiative countries decided to sign a new water-sharing agreement, Egypt – which takes the lion’s share of water from the Nile River – is refusing to give up a drop to upstream African states, escalating a long-running dispute over the river. […]
Read more »A Partial Nile Sharing Pact?
May 14th, 2010
As we discussed in an earlier post and as this Terra Daily article notes, the Nile nations remain split on proposed water-sharing pact: “…Seven African nations are expected to push through a new and more equitable deal this week on sharing the waters of the Nile despite strong opposition from Egypt and Sudan. “What we […]
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