Re:Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland?
by sentrms on Sunday July 24, 2022 @01:39AM
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Will we ever learn ?
On a smaller scale, the Tagus-Segura water transfer project [0] in Spain is creating problems not only for Portugal who receives less water in the Tejo river, but also fueling unsustainable agriculture booms which in turn have created ecological disasters [1]
Often these water transfers introduce invasive species.
Re:Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland?
by Ericson2314 on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:27PM
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Developing countries are pretty starved if foreign exchange. Perhaps local development sounds superior to cash, but look up "balance-of-payments-constrained growth". It's a tricky issue.
Re:Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland?
by AtomicOrbital on Saturday July 23, 2022 @07:35PM
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It is no coincidence that once china brutally overtook power over Tibet it soon afterward deverted tibetian rivers to flow into china and away from their normal southernly trajectory
> "With new water from Tibet, Xinjiang would boom like California,"
War for water is getting real. RIP Bangladesh, East Indian States and Uyghur people, the former two for starving due to the loss of a huge water source for their crops, and the latter for becoming a stranger in their own lands after millions of Chinese flow into Xinjiang for jobs and cheap food/housing. Inflow being trivialized by high-speed rail.
Often these water transfers introduce invasive species.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagus-Segura_Water_Transfer
[1] https://inspain.news/mar-menor-is-victim-of-water-diversion-...
(THE TAGUS-SEGURA WATER TRANSFER Lessons from the past (pdf))
[2] http://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/tagusseguratr...
If we add climate change on top of geo-engineering, we'll see some nasty changes in the decades to come..
You can live for few weeks without eating, but without water, you die in 2 days
https://interestingengineering.com/saudi-arabia-launches-clo...
> "With new water from Tibet, Xinjiang would boom like California,"
War for water is getting real. RIP Bangladesh, East Indian States and Uyghur people, the former two for starving due to the loss of a huge water source for their crops, and the latter for becoming a stranger in their own lands after millions of Chinese flow into Xinjiang for jobs and cheap food/housing. Inflow being trivialized by high-speed rail.
I don't have any to recommend as I'm just starting to read them.