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Jordan, Israel Agree To Build $900M Red Sea-Dead Sea Desalination Plant
Jordan and Israel have signed an agreement on Thursday to build a $900 million water desalination plant in the Gulf of Aqaba and a pipeline that links the Red Sea with the Dead Sea, Reuters reports. The desalination plant will be constructed in the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba on the Red Sea and will desalinate … Continue reading
Protests Will Test Brazilian Government’s Resolve
By Stratfor Global Intelligence Social movements and activist groups are just one more challenge Brazil will face in a year of economic slowdown and political scandal. Protests over public transportation costs, land reform, work conditions and other issues have been on the rise in recent years and will test Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s second-term reform … Continue reading
China Goes ‘Rogue’ With ‘Artificial Weather’ Scheme
By Deirdre Fulton Within five years, China intends to use a dubious geoengineering technology known as ‘cloud seeding’ to induce more than 60 billion cubic meters of additional rain each year, its government said this week. Backers of the program—which involves rocket-launching chemicals such as silver iodide into the clouds to allegedly boost rainfall—say the strategy … Continue reading
China’s Looming Water Shortage
By Shannon Tiezzi The Diplomat has previously covered China’s water pollution crisis, with the Chinese government reporting that nearly 60 percent of China’s groundwater is polluted. But water scarcity, while obviously exacerbated by pollution, is also a severe problem for China, one that is tied up with complex questions about energy use, urbanization, and modernization. … Continue reading
