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Was there anything that you could have done to protect your property? Probably not. Water goes where it wants to go. It can breach levees, pound dams into rubble and overwhelm seawalls. While it might seem that fighting a storm surge is a David and Goliath battle, there are steps you ...
When he joined Wapda in 1975, the organisation was already politicised. Many lucrative appointments and postings opened up after the Indus Basin Project began, resulting in megastructures worth billions of rupees, such as the Mangla and Tarbela dams. This was Ayub Khan’s era, when a new class...
In the eyes of many Chinese analysts, since the end of the Cold War the United States has revealed itself to be a revisionist power that tries to reshape the global environment even further in its favor. They see evidence of this reality everywhere: in the expansion of NATO; the U.S. ...
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Slogans play a role in many political systems—think of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's “Middle Way” and US President Trump's “America First.” However, such slogans take on much deeper political significance in China and are intended to provide a framework for policy across many fields. ...
(IMPEND) was developed to simulate impact on downstream flows of the four large dams that Ethiopia is considering constructing on the main stem of the Blue Nile (Block2007). In Egypt, the Nile Forecasting System is an operational satellite-driven distributed hydrological modeling system for the ...
Anna writes: “I have not often in my life met with contented and cheerful-minded women, but I never met with so many repining and discontented woman as in Canada.”[ii] To the alarmed male critics of Anna’s feminist views, one woman riposted wittily “well they may be, for when ...