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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 […]
Read more »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.
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