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  • Groundwater Scarcity, Pollution Set India on Perilous Course

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    Choke Point  //  Guest Contributor  //  January 15, 2019  //  By Keith Schneider
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    This article first appeared on Circle of Blue as part of the multi-year Choke Point: India, a collaboration between Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center on the global implications of water, energy, and food challenges in India.

    Doula Village lies 55 kilometers (34 miles) northeast of New Delhi on a flat expanse of Uttar Pradesh farmland close to the Hindon River. Until the 1980s Doula Village’s residents, then numbering 7,000, and its farmers and grain merchants, thrived on land that yielded ample harvests of rice, millet, and mung beans. The bounty was irrigated with clean water transported directly from the river, or with the sweet groundwater drawn from shallow wells 7 meters (23 feet) deep.

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  • Resource Nexus Approaches Can Inform Policy Choices

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 8, 2019  //  By Stacy D. VanDeveer, Raimund Bleischwitz & Catalina Spataru
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    The unabated growth of natural resource consumption raises risks that we will outstrip the capacities of ecosystems and governance institutions. At the same time, to achieve important global goals related to poverty alleviation, public health, equity and economic development such as those embodied in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we will simultaneously need more resources and better management of natural resources everywhere.

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  • As Andean Glaciers Retreat, So Does Regional Security

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 11, 2018  //  By Kate Cullen
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    Last month, Bolivia filed a counterclaim against Chile in the International Court of Justice—the latest salvo in their battle over rights to the waters of the Silala River. The court will decide whether Silala is “an international watercourse”—thus granting water rights to Chilean mining operations—or simply an artificial diversion of Bolivian spring water by Chile. This legal case marks the latest chapter in Bolivia and Chile’s historically delicate relationship, which dates back to the War of the Pacific in the late 19th century.

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  • Reaching for Resilience in East Africa

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    From the Wilson Center  //  July 26, 2018  //  By Daniel Lohmann
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    “Resilience isn’t an outcome, it is a process—and capacity-building is crucial,” said Chelsea Keyser, Deputy Chief of Party for USAID’s PREPARED program, during a recent event at the Wilson Center marking the end of the five-year project. PREPARED (Planning for Resilience in East Africa Through Policy, Adaptation, Research, and Economic Development) developed 14 different tools to help communities adapt to the impacts of the changing environment in the East African region, including unreliable rainfall and rising temperatures.

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  • Franklin Moore: Fostering Local Innovation Through Community Organization

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    Friday Podcasts  //  July 20, 2018  //  By Benjamin Dills

    Franklin-Moore-235Africare’s work has been built on a “strong belief that community mobilization and local capacity building and innovation are the cornerstones of successful development, and that, for us, includes resilience,” says Franklin Moore, Chief of Programs for Africare, in a podcast from a recent Wilson Center event. “Community engagement, capacity building, and looking at locally driven behavior and social change is what empowers communities.”

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  • A More Resilient World: The Role of Population and Family Planning in Sustainable Development

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 27, 2018  //  By Olivia Smith

    Girls in jigjiga, jila alu kebele on their way to fetch water from the nearby water point which is recently started by unicef/ethiopia. they explain, their life is much improved in which they get cleaner water in their nearby. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Tesfaye

    “Community mobilization, local capacity-building, and innovation are the cornerstones of successful development. And that for us includes resilience,” said Franklin Moore, Africare’s Chief of Programs, at a Wilson Center event on family planning and sustainable development. As rapid population growth intersects with challenges like food insecurity and water scarcity, communities in developing countries need not only the capacity to absorb short-term shocks, they also need transformative capacity to address long-term challenges.

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  • Limited Water for Unlimited Development: Q&A With Shaofeng Jia

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  Q&A  //  June 14, 2018  //  By Lan Geng
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    A quarter of the coal that powers China’s economy is mined in Inner Mongolia, one of the country’s most water-scarce provinces with only slightly under two percent of China’s total water resources. The coal-rich city of Ordos, which produces nearly 70 percent of all the coal in Inner Mongolia, is bookended by expanding deserts—Kubuqi to the north and Maowushu to the south—and may one day run out of water and face a “Day Zero” like Cape Town in South Africa. Both the central and local governments are promoting a number of efforts to create new water supplies in Ordos, such as treating brackish waters and trading water rights. To learn more, the China Energy & Environment Forum recently interviewed Shaofeng Jia, the Deputy Director of Water Resources Research Center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who recently completed an extensive study on water-energy confrontations in Inner Mongolia.

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  • Sustainable Water, Resilient Communities: The Challenge of Erratic Water

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 7, 2018  //  By Rebecca Lorenzen
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    Water variability is increasing “due to climate change and to more frequent natural disasters,” said Jonathan Cook, Senior Climate Change Adaptation Specialist with the U.S. Agency for International Development, at the fourth and final event in a series on water security organized by the Wilson Center and the Sustainable Water Partnership. To solve the problem of increasingly erratic water, “business as usual is really not acceptable anymore,” said Will Sarni, founder of WetDATA.org, who called for new, innovative ideas: “Hope is not a strategy.”

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