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7 Apr 2021 EDINBURGH, United Kingdom

ICT Supply Chain Faces High Flooding Risk

Key river basins that are particularly vulnerable include Taihu, Dong and Zhu in China; Danube and Rhine in Europe; Colorado and Upper Mississippi in the United States.

9 Jan 2021 LONDON, United Kingdom

Counting The Cost Of Climate Change To The World's Economy

Christian Aid's annual assessment of weather disasters reports an estimated $150 Billion USD in damages in 2020, reflecting long-term impact of global warming.An estimated 4 Percent of the economic losses from climate-related extreme events occurred in low-income countries were insured, compared to 60 Percent in high-income countries...

3 Nov 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland

Urban Water Risk Scenarios: How Climate Change Will Hit Where You Live

Environmental organisation WWF has released analysis of new water risk scenarios for 100 cities around the world.The city risk analysis, released on World Cities Day (31 October), includes scenarios in Beijing, Jakarta, Jaipur, Johannesburg, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Mecca and Rio de Janeiro, with almost half of the cities at risk being in China...

11 Aug 2020 DHAKA, Bangladesh

Bangladesh To Seek Chinese Support For Teesta River Restoration Project

Bangladesh’s Ministry of Water Resources is set to seek funding for an estimated $985 Million USD to implement a “Teesta River Comprehensive Management and Restoration Project”, possibly with support from China, as discussions with India over management of the river are perceived to have been unproductive...

6 Feb 2020 CAPE TOWN, South Africa

WWF Analyses Mining Sector Water Risk

New analysis from environmental NGO WWF reports that the extractives sector suffered water-related financial losses of over $20 Billion USD in 2018, measuring operational risk (too much and too little water), regulatory and reputational risk to highlight companies, commodities, river basins and countries that face the highest overall water risks...

4 Dec 2018 Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Honduras: Seven Convicted Of Murder Of Respected Anti-Dam Activist Berta Caceres

A court in Honduras has found seven men guilty of the murder of renowned environmental activist Berta Caceres who was shot dead in her home by gunmen in 2016 after receiving death threats for her opposition to the Aqua Zarca hydro-electric dam.Judges at the court in Tegucigalpa November 29 said two officials from the construction firm Desa - Sergio Rodríguez and Douglas Bustillo - had helped organize the killing along with former soldier Mariano Díaz...

18 Sep 2018 MANILA, Philippines

ADB Loan Will Help Protect Yangtze River's Lonxi Watershed

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $150 Millian USD loan to protect a water basin of China's Yangtze River.The ADB said September 18 that the loan for a "complementary set of initiatives to improve flood management, clean water supplies, and ecological conservation in the Longxi River watershed is a key project under ADB's new Yangtze River Economic Belt Framework" which will provide around 2 billion U...

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11 Sep 2018 NEW DELHI

China-India Water Data Relationship Thaws

What a difference a year can make in China-India relations. Last year, China was blamed for a flood in northeastern India. This year, it is being praised for helping to minimise the damage. The early warning China issued to India in August on the rising waters of its Tsangpo river – which hit its highest level in 150 years – gave the Indian authorities enough time to prepare.

2 Jul 2018 ASTANA, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, China To Co-construct Dam On Cross-border Khorgos River

Kazahkstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev last week ratified an agreement between Kazahkstan and China on cooperation in construction of a landslide prevention dam on the cross-border Khorgos River. An initial construction agreement had been signed during the official visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Kazakhstan in June 2017...

29 May 2018 HONG KONG, China

Climate Change To Cost China $389 Billion USD In Next 20 Years

Flooding caused by climate change could cost China $389 billion USD over the next two decades, far more than any other country, but the ripple effect of those natural disasters on global trade could see the United States coming out as a major loser too, a recent study has suggested. The US, which has a similar land mass to China, face an economic hit of $30 billion USD from river flooding in the years through 2035, while the damage to European Union nations would fall somewhere between the two.

15 Mar 2018 NEW DELHI

China Blamed Technical Reasons For 2017 Failure to Provide India with River Data

In a written response to a question in the Lok Sabha, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said under the existing bilateral Memorandums of Understanding, China provides to India hydrological data information of Brahmaputra river (Yarlong Zanbo in Chinese) and Sutlej river (Langqen Zangbo in Chinese) during the flood seasons...

7 Mar 2018 New DELHI

India, China to Revive Transboundary Data-Sharing Mechanism

With both countries keen to move out of the shadow of the face-off in Doklam, India and China are set to revive a mechanism for sharing data on trans-boundary rivers. India and China will soon hold a meeting of the Expert Level Mechanism, which was set up in 2006 for interaction and cooperation on sharing of flood-season hydrological data, emergency management and other issues regarding trans-border rivers, like Brahmaputra and Sutlej.