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The Thirsty Dragon: What’s Driving China’s Mega Medog Hydropower Project?
February 7th, 2026
Via The Diplomat, a look at how energy security, frontier development, technological ambition, and geopolitical calculation are increasingly intertwined in China’s hydro infrastructure strategy: China’s most ambitious hydropower project to date officially entered the construction phase on July 19, 2025, when Premier Li Qiang presided over a groundbreaking ceremony in Nyingchi City in the Tibet Autonomous Region […]
Read more »Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack
February 7th, 2026
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how – with another federal deadline only weeks away and record-low snowfall further drying out the watershed – states have begun talking about whether they are prepared for litigation: Time and water are running low on the Colorado River. Amid one of the driest winters on record, representatives […]
Read more »Fate of Colorado River Hangs In Balance As Political Battle Brews
February 3rd, 2026
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on how the fight over the dwindling Colorado River has long been nonpartisan, but now an unprecedented meeting of governors over the issue raises the political stakes: For a life-sustaining natural resource relied on by tens of millions of people and fought over by seven states and two […]
Read more »Trump Wades Into Nile Dispute; Egypt and Sudan Back Move, Ethiopia Silent
January 23rd, 2026
Via The Africa Report, a look at how Donald Trump has once again thrust Washington into the long-running dispute over the Nile River and Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, openly siding with Egypt and Sudan on water security: Tensions over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) took centre stage as US President Donald Trump met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah […]
Read more »The Cross-Border Fight for Water in the Rio Grande Valley
January 17th, 2026
Via Texas Monthly, commentary on water diplomacy and a looming disaster for communities and industry along the Rio Grande: Water scarcity is a fact of life for people in South Texas and the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico. While Texans in the Rio Grande Valley have so far avoided scientists’ predictions of a “Zero Day” […]
Read more »Mexico Is Sending Texas Billions of Gallons of Water. It Won’t Be Enough.
January 17th, 2026
Via Texas Monthly, a report on the treaty between the U.S. and Mexico that aims to manage resources that flow between nations. What happens when the water dries up? There’s a scenic overlook off the highway above the deep ravine of the Cañón del Pegüis in Chihuahua, Mexico, not far from the Texas border and […]
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