By John Vidal, environment editor The Guardian Water wars haven’t started yet, but shortages certainly cause tensions between states to rise Fifteen years ago Ismail Serageldin, an Egyptian who was vice-president of the World Bank, shook politicians by predicting that the wars of the 21st century would be fought not over oil or land, but [...]
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China-India Water Shortage Means Coca-Cola Joins Intel in Fight
By Cherian Thomas, Unni Krishnan and Sophie Leung for Bloomberg May 26 (Bloomberg) — A fight breaks out as student Vikas Dagar jostles with dozens of men, women and children to fill buckets from a truck that brings water twice a week to the village of Jharoda Kalan on the outskirts of New Delhi. Three [...]
Mekong summit changes nothing
Milton Osbourne for The Lowy Interpreter With something closer to a whimper than a bang, the first summit meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) concluded in Hua Hin, Thailand, on Monday 5 April. As I predicted, none of the MRC leaders chose to confront China over its repeated claims that dams in China have [...]
Sick Water?
Time to Cure Global Tide of Sick Water Turning Two Millions Tons of Waste – Equal to Over Two Billion Tons of Wastewater – into Economic Resource Could Benefit Human Health, Agriculture and the Environment Nairobi (Kenya), 22 March 2010 – Transforming wastewater from a major health and environmental hazard into a clean, safe and [...]
China’s dams are sinking its relationship with India
From Probe International The operators of the Three Gorges Dam are continuing to export their hydro-power schemes to countries around the globe. The latest destination is Pakistan. According to recent reports, Pakistan’s Ministry of Water and Power has signed a number of memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China’s Three Gorges Dam Project Corporation. The MOUs [...]
UK warns of lack of urgency over Copenhagen talks
Peter Griffiths for REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – The world lacks a sense of urgency over the importance of the U.N. climate change talks in Copenhagen in preventing a “human emergency” affecting hundreds of millions of people, the British government said on Thursday. With United Nations talks on a new deal to combat global warming less [...]
The Truth About Water Wars
Seven experts debate the past and present existence of water wars, consider the difficulty of owning a fluid resource, and examine the hot spots for future conflict. The magnificent seven are… Mark Zeitoun is a senior lecturer in the School of International Development, University of East Anglia and author of Power and Water in the [...]
Beware Of Water Wars
24 Nov 2008 | Brahma Chellaney Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s disclosure that during his recent Beijing visit he raised the issue of international rivers flowing out of Tibet underscores the enormous implications of China’s hydro-engineering projects and plans. Through its control over the Tibet plateau, China controls the flow of several major river systems that [...]
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Sam Bozzo, an American documentary filmmaker will premiere his movie: Blue Gold: World Water Wars – at the Vancouver International Film Festival from September 25 to October 10, 2008. See the trailer below: Find out more here: Bluegold-World Water Wars
