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Together They Lose
Posted by Inter Press Service: Christopher Pala on November 18th, 2011
Inter Press Service: Rarely have so many donor countries spent so much for so long to achieve so little. In fact, the scores of Western countries ranging from the Netherlands to the United States that have tried for 20 years to coax the Central Asian nations to use their water cooperatively and create a win-win situation for all have found that the Central Asians are cooperating less and less, not more and more.
Water-sharing problems among any neighbouring countries from the Danube to the Nile are among the most...
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Kazakhstan: Sea Reclaimed as Lake
Posted by Inter Press Service: Christopher Pala on November 2nd, 2011
Inter Press Service: Just six years after the completion of a dike that raised the level of the northern part of the Aral Sea by two metres and slashed its salt content by two-thirds, this remote Central Asian lake once synonymous with ecological catastrophe has become a model of environmental recovery.
"It’s amazing how fast it’s bounced back," Aral Sea expert Philip Micklin of the University of Western Michigan at Kalamazoo told IPS as he measured salinity against a backdrop of reed-covered wetlands alive with sandpipers,...