Project Syndicate: China’s Dam Frenzy – Brahma Chellaney - December 2, 2011

From the Dec. 2 2011 Project Syndicate: Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research, is the author of Asian Juggernaut and the newly released Water: Asia’s New Battleground. China remains the world’s biggest dam builder at home and abroad. Indeed, no country in history has built more dams [...]

Greenprophet: Turkish Water Projects Stirring Resentment Around The Region November 3, 2011

From The Nov. 1 2011 Greenprophet blog: Turkey’s massive Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) is an effort to develop the country’s southeast region sustainably, through the use of hydropower plants, irrigation canals, and more. Whether such developments are truly sustainable has long been debated within Turkey. Now, international critics are arguing that Turkey uses its portion [...]

Bikyamasr.com: Egypt, Sudan angry over Nile basin development October 19, 2011

From  BikyaMasr, via StumbleUpon:  Egypt and Sudan are worried and frustrated over recent developments along the Nile River by countries south of their borders that they say could threaten their own water security. Their anger comes after East African countries agreed to work together to implement a series of dams that could generate power to [...]

National Geographic: India and Pakistan at Odds Over Shrinking Indus River October 15, 2011

From The National Geographic: Nearly 30 percent of the world’s cotton supply comes from India and Pakistan, much of that from the Indus River Valley. On average, about 737 billion gallons are withdrawn from the Indus River annually to grow cotton—enough to provide Delhi residents with household water for more than two years. The Indus [...]

Project Syndicate: Brahma Chellaney: The Water Hegemon October 14, 2011

Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research, the author of Water: Asia’s New Battleground, writes at Project Syndicate: No other country has ever managed to assume such unchallenged riparian preeminence on a continent by controlling the headwaters of multiple international rivers and manipulating their cross-border flows. China, the world’s biggest [...]

Myanmar to Stop Construction of Controversial Myitsone Dam – WSJ.com October 3, 2011

From The  Wall Street Journal: Myanmar Halts China Dam President’s Action Is Seen as Snub to Beijing and Move to Appease Dissidents Myanmar’s president called Friday to suspend construction of a controversial China-backed hydroelectric dam that would have flooded an area the size of Singapore, marking the latest—and potentially most significant—sign of warming relations between [...]

Guardian: Shennongjia exposes reckless development of China’s water resources September 28, 2011

From The Guardian: The debate – which has spread to issues of governance, censorship and citizen rights – was sparked by reports last month that revealed four rivers have dried up, dozens of hydropower diversions have been built without environmental impact assessments, and local government officials have been profiting from shares they hold in the [...]

Guardian: China water resettlement: ‘Honest folk have lost out’ September 12, 2011

From The Guardian: 345,000 people are being relocated in a desperate bid to ease Beijing’s drought crisis with a transfusion of water from the Yangtze basin, 1,277km to the south. (the £40bn South-North water diversion is a 50-year project to replenish the arid north of China. According to US diplomatic cables released via WikiLeaks last [...]

WSJ: Tension Over Dam Shifts Myanmar Politics August 12, 2011

From The Wall Street Journal: Ms. Suu Kyi, a 66 years old Nobel Peace Prize winner, is piling further pressure on the new government by loudly criticizing the country’s single largest hydropower project—the $3.6 billion Myitsone dam being built by China in Kachin state in northern Myanmar. Environmental activists and members of the Kachin ethnic [...]