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Central Asia Water Wars: Turkmenistan To Join Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan Vs. Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan
April 12th, 2009
Via The Foreign Policy Association, a report that – in advance of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea meeting in Almaty on April 28 – Uzbekistan’s President, Islam Karimov, has been busy convincing Turkmenistan’s President, Gurbangly Berdymukhamedov, to ally with the downstream Central Asian states against the upstream ones. As the article notes: […]
Read more »India & China: A Dam(n) Race on the Brahmaputra
April 12th, 2009
Via The Tibetan Plateau blog, a report that India and China may be about to undertake a race to dam the Brahmaputra. As the article notes: “…Worried that China might build a very big dam on the Brahmaputra River near its borders, India has recently approved two big dams of their own, “in principle”, on […]
Read more »Central Asian Water & An Aral Proverb: “In Every Drop Of Water There Is A Grain of Gold”
April 4th, 2009
In the latest SAISPHERE 2008, John Daly details more about the most severe conundrum facing Central Asian nations: water. As the report notes: The implosion of the U.S.S.R. in December 1991 sundered a country of 15 constituent republics into 15 new nations, which were immediately faced with the consequences of the dissolution of an economically […]
Read more »Hands on The Tap: China, Israel, and U.S.
March 31st, 2009
Via The Nation, an interesting article positing further that the next resource wars will be fought, not over oil, but over water. As the article notes: “…Maude Barlow, senior advisor to the United Nations on water issues, wrote that the way in which we view water “will in large part determine whether our future is […]
Read more »Dam Development in Tibet Affecting Downstream Nations
March 31st, 2009
Via The Tibetan Plateau blog, a report on dam development in the Tibetan areas of Brahmaputra and Mekong that will impact downstream nations. As the article notes: 1. Brahmaputra (Yarlung Tsangpo), one of the last two free-flowing, undammed major rivers in Tibet, AND China, is also being dammed. Salween is the other major river that […]
Read more »Turkey: A Regional Water Superpower…Engaging In Water Politics
March 31st, 2009
Via Stratfor (subscription required), interesting analysis of Turkey’s water dominance in a parched Middle East. As the report notes: “…During a recent visit to Baghdad to discuss joint efforts against Kurdish rebels, Turkish President Abdullah Gul reportedly promised to double the amount of water allocated to Iraq from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. His pledge […]
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