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  • No, There Will Not Be a War for Water

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 10, 2022  //  By Jeroen Warner & Sumit Vij
    Hyderabad,telangana,india,,November,20,,2019,,An,Indian,Man,Carries,Water,In

    Some people falsely believe that the Afghanistan takeover by the Taliban during a drought increases the risk of violence over shared waters such as the Helmand and Kabul Rivers. Violent clashes over scarce resources have been predicted as “likely,” or even “certain” for 35 years, and despite such “water wars” never having happened, hypotheses about them keep cropping up around conflict-affected regions such as the Middle East and South Asia. In reality, conflicts are multidimensional with social, political, economic, and ecological drivers producing conflicts through their complex interrelations. Because of these multidimensional conflict drivers, the water war message is wrong-headed and needlessly scaremongering.

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  • Blue Jeans Contaminating Blue Oceans: The Expanding Microfiber Footprint of Our Clothes

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    China Environment Forum  //  December 2, 2021  //  By Sam Athey

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    The Arctic is believed to be a pristine environment, far removed from littered city streets and toxic industrial emissions. I study human pollution and I found it hard to believe that my fellow researchers and I would find so much litter out here. It was even harder to believe that what we uncovered closely resembled the contents of my own closet, over 3,000 kilometers (2,000 miles) away in Toronto.

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  • U.S. and Chinese Aquaculture Taps into a Carbon-Free Geothermal Energy Source

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    China Environment Forum  //  October 28, 2021  //  By Karen Mancl
    Water,Vapor,Rising,From,A,Hot,Spring,Under,Jangbaek,Falls

    From Friday night fish fries to shrimp cocktails, people sheltering in place have learned how to cook their favorite dishes at home. As a result U.S. seafood sales have doubled during the pandemic. Globally, the United States ranks fifth in seafood consumption and China—where hunger for seafood has skyrocketed with rising incomes—is number one. While wild fisheries are on the decline, aquaculture is expanding to increase the global food supply.

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  • Achieving SDG 6.2: Adequate and Equitable Sanitation and Hygiene for Who?

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 8, 2021  //  By Georgia Hales
    Tilonia,,Rajasthan,,India,,6,September,2011:,A,Rural,Woman,While

    International development organizations do not exist outside of global systems of oppression. However virtuous their intentions, the power held by development actors remains largely in the hands of the western elite, echoing colonial-era global dynamics.

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  • Simmering Glacial Geopolitics: Upcoming Crises with Transboundary Water Cooperation on Asia’s Back Burner

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 20, 2021  //  By Jill Baggerman
    The,Junction,Of,Two,Rivers,In,China,,Tibet,,"the,Brahmaputra

    People’s lives and livelihoods are at stake if China does not cooperate with its regional neighbors over downstream effects of the Tibetan plateau’s glaciers. The Hindu Kush Himalayas’ (HKH) numerous glaciers are known as the “Water Towers of Asia” and the “Third Pole.” Over 1.9 billion people depend on water systems that stem from HKH glaciers. Climate change will fundamentally alter the hydrology of the water basins—killing or displacing thousands of people as the changes unfold. Asia cannot continue with national or bilateral plans being the primary climate change adaptation strategies: basin-wide cooperation is essential. Unfortunately, conflicts and simmering disputes in the region make this a staggering goal to achieve.

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  • Securing Water for All Is Urgent, but Impossible if We Ignore Housing Inequalities

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 13, 2021  //  By Nazia Hussain & Carmeli Chaves
    Antipolo,City,,Philippines,-,March,14,,2019:,Water,Containers,Waiting

    Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 for safe, sufficient, and available water has always been important. Compounding challenges—from climate change and increasing migration within and across borders to COVID-19 and its multiple variants—makes achieving the human right to water more urgent. But what is often missed in discussions related to water access is that what determines access to safe and sufficient water is about more than gaps in governance or lack of funding—it is intertwined with entrenched inequality in societies, including the planning of urban spaces.

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  • The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed: A Conversation with Co-authors Robin Broad and John Cavanagh

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    Friday Podcasts  //  September 10, 2021  //  By Holly Sarkissian

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    “Many people have watched fights between communities and big corporations around the world. The corporations usually win so those are the Goliath. The Davids usually lose,” says John Cavanagh, co-author of The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed. In this week’s episode of Friday Podcasts, Cavanagh and co-author Robin Broad recount how local activists mobilized a global coalition of religious leaders, labor unions, and environmental activists to block an international corporation from opening a gold mine that threatened El Salvador’s fragile water supply.  

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  • Water and (in-)Security in Afghanistan as the Taliban Take Over

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 20, 2021  //  By The Water, Peace and Security (WPS) Team
    Kabul,,Afghanistan,,Mar,2004:,Women,Carrying,Water,In,Kabul,,Afghanistan

    This article originally appeared on Water, Peace, and Security.  

    The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban not only threatens people’s lives, security, and fundamental freedom, but also significantly increases risks of water insecurity both immediately and in the long term. While our hearts and minds are with the people struggling for survival and freedom in Afghanistan today, we should not forget that the implications of Taliban rule will add yet another challenge to the long-term future of the Afghan people, and possibly also to the entire region’s stability.

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