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Trickle Down From The Last Straw
July 13th, 2009
Courtesy of Climate Progress, some additional thoughts on the regional chaos that may emerge in South Asia if the Kashmir glaciers in the Himalaya continue to melt. Since we blogged earlier about Stephen Faris’ original report in Foreign Policy that focuses focusing on Pakistan’s unsustainable dependence on Kashmiri waters – a dependence that only exacerbates […]
Read more »Iraq Wants More Than Turkey Leftovers: Sharing the Eurphrates & Tigris Rivers
July 6th, 2009
Via Terra Daily, a report that – after years of wrangling – Turkey last month increased the water flow of the Euphrates River into Iraq by 50 percent, helping to boost agricultural harvests. As the article notes, despite this increase, Iraq: “…wracked by a decadelong drought and a rundown agricultural sector, still faces a chronic […]
Read more »Central Texas Water Wars
June 28th, 2009
Via The Burnt Orange Report, an article on the evolving political water wars in central Texas. As the report notes: “…We’ve been expecting it for a long time, and now a Great Water War has come to Central Texas. The Lower Colorado River Authority has abandoned its water agreement with San Antonio, scrapped millions in […]
Read more »Unquiet Flows The Nile…
June 24th, 2009
Via All Africa.com, a report on the latest discussions among & continuing differences between the nine countries over sharing of the Nile waters. As the article notes: Egypt refused to sign a long-negotiated water-sharing agreement at the talks held in late May. Egyptian experts say the proposed treaty failed to guarantee a fair share of […]
Read more »Vietnam: Dam(n)ing China Over Its Mekong Initiatives
June 18th, 2009
Via Yale’s Environment 360 journal, a detailed look at the impact that a series of Chinese dams on the 2,800 mile Mekong River will have upon tens of millions of Southeast Asians. As the article notes: “…Vietnam is now a fast-growing, Westernizing economy. But, paradoxically, peace and prosperity is currently the biggest threat to what […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Demand Reduction Efforts In China
May 26th, 2009
Two articles examining China’s impending freshwater scarcity crisis and the impact of some nascent demand reduction efforts. First, courtesy of The Guardian, is a look at the current status of the South-North Diversion Project: …More than twice as expensive as the Three Gorges Dam and three times longer than the railway to Tibet, the 50-year, […]
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