By Rod Schoonover On June 1, Vice-President Kamala Harris announced the White House Action Plan on Global Water Security. Pictured in yellow is the Hon. Sherri Goodman, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Council on Strategic Risks and,…
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Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant in Vyshgorod, Ukraine. Source: Kiyanka By Richard Marcantonio The risks of warfare are complex. Beyond the often-devastating immediate humanitarian implications of large-scale violence, warfare’s impact on the broader environment is multifaceted, posing environmental, social, political, economic,…
Read More A Case Study in the Environmental Risks of War: Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant
An Iraqi woman walks between Soldiers of A Company, 2-162 Infantry, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oregon Army National Guard as they pull security for a mission outside Scania Base. The mission was to check on the condition of a…
By Peter Schwartzstein That future wars will be fought over water, rather than oil, has become something of a truism, particularly with regard to the Middle East. It’s also one that most water experts have refuted time and time and…
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By Peter Schwartzstein Ever since workers first broke ground on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, international commenters have fixated on the Nile as a possible harbinger of future ‘water wars’ to come. And almost since then, water…
Read More Why the Nile Constitutes a New Kind of Water Dispute – and Why That’s Dangerous
By Dr. Marc Kodack Climate change has and will continue to have both direct and indirect effects around the world. Changes in water will be one of the most visible direct effects, whether it is too little water, such as during…
Read More The New Water Development Report and Implications for Security
