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China and Central Asia: Working Together to Manage the Balkhash-Alakol Basin
November 29th, 2007

News from the Central Asia Water site that a draft agreement on the use of the Balkhash-Alakol Basin has been prepared. As the article notes: “…Kazakhstan’s Minister of Environmental Protection Nurlan Iskakov stated that Kazakhstan, China and Kyrgyzstan prepared an agreement on rational use of the Balkhash-Alakol basin. According to the Minister, ecological consequences of […]

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Great Lakes Water Wars
November 9th, 2007

With large sections of the American West and South suffering through drought, some politicians and water managers are viewing the Great Lakes as the natural-resource equivalent of a fat pension fund, a “tappable” resource which could help in the near-term at the expense of future generations and regional communities. As a recent article from the […]

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Water Politics in the U.S. West – No Dry Spell Ahead
October 27th, 2007

The New York Times Magazine recently published a long article on the drought in the Southwest by Jon Gertner.  His main thesis is that water shortages resulting from climate change may take a greater toll on humanity than a slow rise in the sea level.  I believe it also gives a prescient snapshot of the […]

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