Claude Arpi In October 2003, I wrote an article Diverting the Brahmaputra: a Declaration of War for Rediff.com. At the time, I was told that it was a cheap journalistic gimmick; there was no ‘scientific’ proof! My question then was: “What is the rationale for the project?” I had explained: “Two of the most acute [...]
Dams on the Brahmaputra
By Paul Stewart in May 2nd 2010 No Comment »
Filed Under conflict, dams, fresh water, glacier, hydropower, irrigation, resettlement, rivers, social structures, water security, watershed, world water Tags: dams, headwaters, hydropower dams, rivers, The Arun River, The Brahmaputra River, The Indus River, The Irrawaddy River, The Karnali River, The Mekong River, The Salween River, The Sutlej River, The third pole, The Yangtze River, The Yellow River, tibetan plateau, water
Filed Under conflict, dams, fresh water, glacier, hydropower, irrigation, resettlement, rivers, social structures, water security, watershed, world water Tags: dams, headwaters, hydropower dams, rivers, The Arun River, The Brahmaputra River, The Indus River, The Irrawaddy River, The Karnali River, The Mekong River, The Salween River, The Sutlej River, The third pole, The Yangtze River, The Yellow River, tibetan plateau, water
Tide Of Arab-Turk Tension Rises Amid Water Shortage
By Paul Stewart in January 9th 2010 No Comment »
Filed Under conflict, dams, desertification, drinking water, drought, flora and fauna, food security, fresh water, habitat, hydropower, irrigation, rivers, social structures, water security, watershed, world water Tags: great rivers, headwaters, iraq, syria, tigris and euphrates, turkey, water shortage
Filed Under conflict, dams, desertification, drinking water, drought, flora and fauna, food security, fresh water, habitat, hydropower, irrigation, rivers, social structures, water security, watershed, world water Tags: great rivers, headwaters, iraq, syria, tigris and euphrates, turkey, water shortage
Deborah Amos for National Public Radio The headwaters of the Middle East’s great rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris, originate in Turkey, which controls flow of the waters to the Arab world downstream. A three-year drought has devastated Syria and Iraq, fueling resentment against Turkey. Turkey’s Bosporus strait is one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes [...]
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