End of the Ganges? Today, the Ganges River is shrinking at a remarkable rate, and there are stretches where it has disappeared altogether. The depth of the Ganges around the…

Suez’s Sonia Vihar water treatment plant, the end point for Tehri reservoir water, is located in the slums of North East Delhi along the banks of the Yamuna River. On…

South Africa water apartheid is also exploring its options, as evidenced by its role in the new BRICS (Brazil, Russia, China, and South Africa) bank, the goal of which is…

A Quest for Clean Water in Iraq for Erbil. I still had not found it. But neither did the Swedish NGO Qandil during a similar investigation in 2008. The problem,…

Ifraz water treatment plant in Iraq was built by Fluor as an alternative to well water; the reported cost was $185 million, though this figure seems to vary quite a…

A Kurdistan City of Fountains. There is one exception to the rule that “things are worse” outside Baghdad: Kurdistan. In the northern part of Iraq, Kurdistan is generally considered “safe.”…

Saddam Hussein’s army hid people they had killed. “That was where they dumped the bodies,” Forbes writer Melik Kaylan told me, referring to a concrete reservoir. By then, Saddam had…

After the Egypt revolution, the looming question was whether or not the land and water requisitioned to create projects like Allegria would be returned to the government and renationalized. Most…