River
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There is no risk of the natural depletion of the
river
flow for the next hundred years, but, in the event of a security crisis in Central America, it could be taken over by rogue forces.
Last March, on World Water Day, Jordan’s Prince Hassan bin Talal and I called for the establishment of a Marshall Fund for the world’s shared
river
basins.
Now, we need similar funds to emerge to protect all of the world’s 263 shared
river
basins and lakes.
There are currently two billion near-subsistence farmers living in the six great
river
valleys of Asia, from the Yellow all the way around to the Indus.
Asia’s six great
river
valleys have supported most of human civilization for the past 5,000 years.
Against this backdrop, the World Coal Association (WCA) is meeting this week, also in Warsaw – in fact, just across the
river
from where negotiators are trying to forge the building blocks of a global climate agreement by 2015.
This is where a new method of analysis could help, by modeling narrative as a
river
of transforming situations and searching for the forces that propel them forward.
Kim Jong-un’s regime – which has as little regard for the environment as it does for international rules and norms – simply called for the steaming water used to cool the reactor to be dumped into a nearby
river.
Men stand near the canal wearing traditional kalpak hats, children play in the river, and women bake naan, the round flaky Kyrgyz bread.
He crowned these with his call to liberate Palestine "from the
river
to the sea," that is, the destruction of Israel, outdoing the Palestinian leaders themselves.
Britain’s colonial-era treaty has, since 1929, given Egypt a veto over any upstream
river
project that might affect the country’s water supply.
In turn, retired US and Russian military and intelligence established the Elbe Group, named for the
river
where the two countries’ forces met in the closing days of World War II.
The manager of the hotel where we stayed, just across the border, regularly sends a little boat across the crocodile-infested
river
to bring over Angolans who want to buy provisions at the hotel canteen or see the visiting Namibian health-care workers.
Indeed, it has almost furtively initiated dam projects to reengineer cross-border
river
flows and increase its leverage over its neighbors.
The classic example of rent-seeking is that of a feudal lord who installs a chain across a
river
that flows through his land and then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee (or rent of the section of the
river
for a few minutes) to lower the chain.
The lord has made no improvements to the
river
and is helping nobody in any way, directly or indirectly, except himself.
If enough lords along the
river
follow suit, its use may be severely curtailed.
If the bad assets that they reject – for example, the subprime mortgage securities that fueled the 2008 financial crisis – are created anyway and foisted on less knowledgeable investors, financiers contribute no more to society than a lord who installs a chain across a
river.
The only solution, therefore, is a process of qualitative analysis followed by rigorous and reiterative testing against empirical facts until different paths or policy options are found – or, as Deng Xiaoping famously said, “crossing the
river
by feeling the stones.”
Sisi’s foreign-policy credentials have also lately received a much-needed (though largely undeserved) boost from the pause in construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile, Africa’s longest
river.
Tibet is the starting point of Asia’s ten major
river
systems.
As the Chinese saying puts it, policymakers will need to cross the
river
by feeling the stones.
His approach reflects a key feature of Chinese reforms since the 1970s: announce a bold vision and then figure out how to realize it through structured experimentation and careful iterations – or, as Deng Xiaoping famously said, “crossing the
river
by feeling the stones.”
And yet we are rapidly destroying the planet’s
river
systems, with serious implications for our economies, societies, and even our survival.
The Mekong
River
is running at a historically low level, owing largely to a series of Chinese-built mega-dams near the border of the Tibetan Plateau, just before the
river
crosses into Southeast Asia.
Humans are hardly exempt from the health consequences of
river
destruction.
Yet, while world leaders are often willing to pay lip service to the imperative of strengthening
river
protections, their rhetoric is rarely translated into action.
Among the casualties is the Amazon River, the world’s largest
river
in terms of discharge, which carries more water than the next ten largest rivers combined.
The absence of water-sharing or cooperative-management arrangements in the vast majority of transnational
river
basins facilitates such destruction.
One way to protect relatively undamaged
river
systems – such as the Amur, the Congo, and the Salween – would be to broaden implementation of the 1972 World Heritage Convention, and add these rivers to the World Heritage List, alongside UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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