pitch interactive visualisations - wesley grubbs climateviz14

Wesley Grubbs

Pitch Interactive, Inc.

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Wednesday, May 28, 14

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393 EVENTSLeaders use language of discord in an official or unofficial setting

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With the planet’s climate in flux, rivers will both flood and run dry more often, according to the latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change. Shortages are especially likely in parts of the world already short on water, so political scientists expect feuds will become even more intense. To track disputes worldwide, researchers at Oregon State University spent a decade building a comprehensive database of international incidents—both aggressive and cooperative—over shared water resources. They found that countries often begin disputes belligerently but ultimately reach peaceful agreements. Says Aaron Wolf, the geosciences professor who leads the project, “For me the really interesting part is how even Arabs and Israelis, Indians and Pakistanis are able to resolve their differences and find a solution.” K AT I E P E E K

NERD BOX The map displays nearly 2,000 international incidents, collaboration and conflict alike, over shared river basins from 1990 to 2008. The areas of the circles in the sidebar [facing page] compare about 2,200 events—including another 200 disputes over resources other than shared rivers—from the same period.

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The color of each international river basin shows the total number of incidents there, both aggressive and cooperative, from 1990 to 2008.

Circle size indicates the number of hostile events in each basin.

1–3 4–15 16–40 41–126 127+

3–6 7–15 16–45 46+

I N C I D E N T S B Y I N T E N S I T Y The researchers graded each event in their database on a 15-point scale.

CURRENT HOTSPOT In 2011, Ethiopia began building the Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile, a tributary that provides 60 percent of the Nile’s water. Without any basin-wide treaties in place, Egypt and Sudan are concerned about receiving enough water downriver. Ethiopia plans to complete the project in 2017.

CURRENT HOTSPOT Later this year Turkey will complete the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River, part of a national push to boost electrical capacity. Besides submerging the 12,000-year-old settlement of Hasankeyf, the dam may damage Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshes by allowing them to get saltier. Germany, Austria, and Switzerland withdrew funding for the dam in 2009.

CURRENT HOTSPOT In a channel of the Mekong two miles north of the Cambodian border, Laos intends to construct the Don Sahong Dam.The power project would affect fishing in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand, and those countries are demanding veto power.

0 EVENTSDeclaration of war

570 EVENTSLeaders express mild verbal support in talks or policy exchanges

245 EVENTSNations agree to support projects like irrigation or river management

0 EVENTSVoluntary unification into a single country

9 EVENTSHostile action like troop movement or water-supply disruption

CURRENT HOTSPOT Tajikistan is planning the Rogun hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the Amu Dar’ya river. The dam would be the tallest in the world and help alleviate the country’s energy shortages. Uzbekistan, fearing irrigation shortfalls, has imposed tariffs and travel restrictions on its neighbor.


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Mekong

Tigris-Euphrates

Amur

Congo

Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna

Xi

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Han

Danube

Aral Sea

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NigerNile

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Most hostile Neutral Most collaborative

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The color of each international river basin shows the total number of incidents there, both aggressive and cooperative, from 1990 to 2008.

Circle size indicates the number of hostile events in each basin.

1–3 4–15 16–40 41–126 127+

3–6 7–15 16–45 46+

I N C I D E N T S B Y I N T E N S I T Y The researchers graded each event in their database on a 15-point scale.

CURRENT HOTSPOT In 2011, Ethiopia began building the Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile, a tributary that provides 60 percent of the Nile’s water. Without any basin-wide treaties in place, Egypt and Sudan are concerned about receiving enough water downriver. Ethiopia plans to complete the project in 2017.

settlement of Hasankeyf, the dam may damage Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshes by allowing them to get saltier. Germany, Austria, and Switzerland withdrew funding for the dam in 2009.

CURRENT HOTSPOT In a channel of the Mekong two miles north of the Cambodian border, Laos intends to construct the Don Sahong Dam.The power project would affect fishing in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand, and those countries are demanding veto power.

Uzbekistan, fearing irrigation shortfalls, has imposed tariffs and travel restrictions on its neighbor.


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