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Mideast Water Wars: In Iraq, A Battle for Control of Water
2014-08-25 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: There is a water war going on in the Middle East this summer. Behind the headline stories of brutal slaughter as Sunni militants carve out a religious state covering Iraq and Syria, there lies a battle for the water supplies that sustain these desert nations. Blood is being spilled to capture the giant dams that control the regions two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. These structures hold back vast volumes of water. With their engineers fleeing as the Islamic State (ISIS) advances, the...
In Detroits water wars, a pause that refreshes
2014-07-30 20:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Tuesday, as I drove around Detroit interviewing people about the city`s water crisis, my email kept filling with congratulatory messages. "I`m excited to let you know about a big win that happened today in Detroit," read one, from the organizers of Netroots Nation, the conference that helped call attention to the biggest and most celebrity-bedazzled protest the crisis has seen so far. "Control of the Detroit Water and Sewage Department (DWSD) has been returned back to the hands of the people....
Water wars between countries could be just around the corner, Davey warns
2014-05-27 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Water wars could be a real prospect in coming years as states struggle with the effects of climate change, growing demand for water and declining resources, the secretary of state for energy and climate change warned on Thursday. Ed Davey told a conference of high-ranking politicians and diplomats from around the world that although water had not been a direct cause of wars in the past, growing pressure on the resource if climate change is allowed to take hold, together with the pressure on food...
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Threat of water wars is real, says climate change scientist
2013-12-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International News: In an interview with The News on Friday, Dr Qamar uz Zaman Chaudhry, senior adviser on Climate Change Programme and deputy regional director, Asia, LEAD Pakistan, identified threats to the country due to climate change and global warming. He agreed that water wars were real, and said food security was directly linked to climate change. Dr Chaudhry is in town as a resource person at a three-day Saarc workshop on Climate Change Impacts on Coastal and Aquatic Resources. The workshop...
Avert water wars - build desalination plants
2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chonicle: Get ready for the water wars. Most of the world's population takes water for granted, just like air - two life-sustaining substances. After all, the human body is nearly two-thirds water. But a Hindustan Times blogger said that in India right now, as in so many other places around the globe, drinkable water has become such a precious commodity that it's dragging the world into "water wars to follow the ones for the control of fuel oil." Climate change is drying up lakes and rivers almost...