James Workman: Who Owns the Rain—When Thirsty Democracies Deny Individual Liberty to Water
James G. Workman reflects on a recent ruling that compromises the water rights of the Bushmen.
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India and Pakistan Dispute Water Use for Hydropower, Agriculture
India strives to redirect water, currently used for Pakistani agriculture, on the Kishanganga River for 330 megawatts.
The War on Tap Water: An Exclusive Excerpt from Peter Gleick’s Bottled and Sold
“The growth of the bottled water industry is a story about 21st century controversies and contradictions: poverty versus glitterati; perception versus reality; private gain versus public loss of the last century.”
UK Reliance on Imported Water Leaves Country Vulnerable, Study
Many places the country currently imports products from may begin to see problems meeting domestic water demand in the coming decades, possibly causing a shortage of goods for the country, a study says.
Standing in a Really Long Line: Toilet Queue Serves Indian Village Effort to Promote Sanitation Awareness
The Janadesar village in the arid Marwar Region of India teamed up with the Jal Bahagirathi Foundation on World Toilet Day
Divining Destiny: Water Challenges in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley
Demand for Mexico’s finite supply of water will rise steadily for the foreseeable future.
Q&A: Raúl Garciadiego Helps Restore Access to Water in the Tehuacán Valley
The people who inhabit Tehuacán Valley in southeast Mexico humanize one of the greatest global crises.
Perspective: Waters, Wars, Wheat, Watts, Waste and Wasta Add Up to Syria’s Liquid Worries
Syria’s economics, history, politics, diplomacy, and culture have often been defined in a large part by water. This has been the case since this area was part of the Eblan civilization, or about 2500 BC, onward. But let’s look at some more recent facts and events.
Perspective: Water, Energy, Economy, Poverty, and Haiti
The average Haitian has been living the life of a disaster victim even before the earthquake. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its human development and other indices were about what one would find in some of the poorest sub-Saharan countries. Mismanagement, corruption and just plain venality have forever been human-caused security earthquakes in this sad country.
Perspective: Sudan – Land of Water and Thirst; War and Peace
Circle of Blue introduces the first contributing column from Dr. Paul J. Sullivan, an expert on resource conflict in the Middle East and parts of Africa. In his first piece, Sullivan discusses the water crisis in one of the world’s most spotlighted failing states — Sudan.
Arab World Among the Most Vulnerable to Climate Change
Though water is already scarce and food production will decline in the region, most Arab countries are doing little to prepare, reports say.
Food production in the Arab world will be hurt by sea level rises and water scarcity exacerbated by climate change, concluded two reports released last week, according to Reuters.
Heart of Dryness: Water, Climate, and Energy
The second installment Climate Change Coping Strategies of excerpts from James G. Workman’s Heart of Dryness
