{"id":1071,"date":"2015-01-05T19:40:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T19:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2015-01-05T19:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T19:40:17","slug":"heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Heard, Read, Seen by Water Diplomats this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/the-rising-pressure-of-global-water-shortages-1.16622\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/the-rising-pressure-of-global-water-shortages-1.16622', 'The rising pressure of global water shortages ']);\" >The rising pressure of global water shortages <\/a> (Nature) \u2013 a commentary by Jan Eliasson discussing the role of hydro-diplomacy to address current and future water challenges stemming from population pressure on water demand.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/news\/local\/adelaide\/2014\/12\/29\/-poor-plan--desal-plant-can-t-close.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/news\/local\/adelaide\/2014\/12\/29\/-poor-plan--desal-plant-can-t-close.html', '\u2018Poor plan&#8217; desal plant can&#8217;t close']);\" >\u2018Poor plan&#8217; desal plant can&#8217;t close<\/a> (Sky News) \u2013 100 Gigaliter Adelaide Australia desalination plant built during the drought is not needed to meet current post-drought water demand, and it may be too expensive to merely mothball. What happens when variable scale problems with high levels of uncertainty are addressed by too-big-to fail infrastructure investments?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.eldis.org\/.5c1ba70f?utm_content=bufferb297c&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer&amp;cert=807.kqEhrE211EQ\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/community.eldis.org\/.5c1ba70f?utm_content=bufferb297c&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer&amp;cert=807.kqEhrE211EQ', 'Compendium of Lessons Learned from ARCC Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments']);\" >Compendium of Lessons Learned from ARCC Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments<\/a> (USAID) \u2013 Report from October 2014 includes case studies and examples from Uganda, Malawi, Senegal and the Dominican Republic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/goatsandsoda\/2014\/12\/23\/371862099\/floating-toilets-that-clean-themselves-grow-on-a-lake\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/goatsandsoda\/2014\/12\/23\/371862099\/floating-toilets-that-clean-themselves-grow-on-a-lake', 'Floating Toilets That Clean Themselves Grow On A Lake']);\" >Floating Toilets That Clean Themselves Grow On A Lake<\/a> (NPR) &#8211; a novel\u00a0approach to addressing E. coli in Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/irans-dam-diplomacy\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/irans-dam-diplomacy\/', 'Iran\u2019s dam diplomacy']);\" >Iran\u2019s dam diplomacy<\/a> (American Enterprise Institute) &#8211; Michael Rubin provides a brief commentary on reasons for dam construction beyond water storage and electricity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Contributed by\u00a0Tim Griffin, Amanda Repella, and Mahdi Zarghami<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week&#8230; The rising pressure of global water shortages (Nature) \u2013 a commentary by Jan Eliasson discussing the role of hydro-diplomacy to address current and future water challenges stemming from population pressure on water demand. \u2018Poor plan&#8217; desal plant can&#8217;t close (Sky News) [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heard-read-seen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}