Water Wars: External Links 2005

The following are articles and commentary for the year 2005 related to the main article water wars.

Also see articles and commentary for: 1990-1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; and 2006.

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• "ADB and the Privatization of Metro Manila's Water Distribution System: Corporate Greed takes Over Public Welfare," Asian Development Bank, 2005.
• "Privatization. Nature for Sale. The impacts of privatizing water and biodiversity," Friends of the Earth, January 2005.
• "Water Privatization Fight Escalates," Nicaragua Network Hotline (Global Exchange), January 11, 2005.
• Nicholas Mead, "Spain's water shortage," Barcelona Metropolitan, January 12, 2005.
• Jon Markman, "Invest in the coming global water shortage," MSN Money Central, January 12, 2005.
• Jeff Fleischer, "Blue Gold: An Interview with Maude Barlow," Mother Jones, January 14, 2005.
• Luis A. Gómez, "1, 2, 3... El Alto Scores a Knockout Against Suez Company in Water Dispute. A New Victory for the Bolivian People," Narco News, January 14, 2005.
• Will Braun, "Bolivians win Water War II," ZMag, January 16, 2005.
• "Iraq: Water shortage could lead to health crisis," IRIN (Health Now), January 24, 2005.
• Meena S. Janardhan, "UAE: N-energy & water shortage," Dawn, January 26, 2005.
• Jim Shultz, "The Politics of Water in Bolivia," The Nation, January 28, 2005.
• Mike Thomson, "Ex-UN chief warns of water wars," BBC (Energy Bulletin), February 3, 2005: "Competition for water resources could provoke wars in Africa and the Middle East, Boutros Boutros Ghali has said."
• "Fighting Water Privatization in Peru," ACORN, February 17, 2005.
• Kelly Hearn, "Not A Drop To Drink. In parched Latin American countries, the battle over water is ready to explode," The American Prospect, February 25, 2005.
• "River Jordan 'nearly running dry'," BBC, March 11, 2005.
• John R. Bradley, "Water Wars Loom in Middle East," Selves and Others, March 18, 2005.
• Joshua Ortega, "Water wars: Bottling up the world's supply of H2O," Seattle Times, March 21, 2005.
• "World Water Day 2005: Water Privatization in Stockton and Detroit," Democracy Now!, March 22, 2005.
• Lisa Garrigues, "Uruguay Rejects Water Privatization," Yes Magazine, Spring 2005.
• "Nine Million Chinese Face Drinking-Water Shortage," Planet Ark, April 5, 2005.
• "Widespread Water Shortage Problems in Lower Burma," Independent Mon News Agency, April 22, 2005.
• Brian Carnell, "Boutros Boutros Ghali Predicts Regional Water Wars," OverPopulation.com, April 23, 2005.
• Malvika Kaul, "India’s water wars," Deccan Herald, April 24, 2005: "Water, a daily commodity, is being privatised. Eco-feminists like Dr Vandana Shiva who are battling this crisis, may be our only hope for a better future in this regard."
• Bill Lambrecht, "The new water wars: on the Missouri and rivers further east, dying industries control the flow and leave emerging businesses high and dry," Washington Monthly (FindArticles), May 2005.
• P. Saineth, "That Drop in the Bucket Will Cost You. India's Bloody Water Wars," CounterPunch, May 6, 2005.
• "Global warming spells out water shortage," Xinhua News Agency (China Daily), May 11, 2005.
• Sam Vaknin, "The Emerging Water Wars," Global Politician, May 20, 2005; YnetNews, May 30, 2005.
• Arlene Getz, "Water, War and Politics. A little-noticed agreement on the dying Dead Sea is a symbol of progress in the Middle East. But can governments in the region seize the moment?" Newsweek (MSNBC), May 23, 2005.
• John Vidal, "Public backlash over private water deals," Guardian (UK), May 25, 2005.
• "Water Privatization Plan Goes Awry in Tanzania," The Dominion (Canada), May 26, 2005.
• Paul Constance, "Who won the water wars?" IDB America, June 2005.
• Rajeev Srinivasan, "The coming water wars," Rediff.com, June 24, 2005.
• Michelle Chen, "Corporations Grope for Increasing Portion of Public Water Supply," The New Standard, June 29, 2005.
• Vandana Shiva, "Water Privatisation And Water Wars," ZMag, July 12, 2005.
• Yousif Muhammad, "Acute Water Shortage in Madinah," Arab News, July 27, 2005.
• Sudhir Chadda, "Kashmir in acute shortage of drinking water – Indian Government must take action to win the heart of common people," India Daily, August 9, 2005.
• Thalif Deen, "Are Water Wars a Fantasy, or a Future Reality?" Inter Press Service (Global Security), August 29, 2005.
• J. Madeleine Nash, "Western Water Wars. Las Vegas eyes rural Nevada's aquifers, triggering a debate about the future of this arid region," TIME, September 5, 2005.
• "Water wars: Companies battle over franchises," The Daily Times/DelMarVaNow.com, September 7, 2005.
• Mark Willacy, "Iraq suffers severe water shortage," ABC News (Australia), September 13, 2005.
• Khalid Mustafa, "17% water shortage in Rabi season: IRSA. Sindh demands water distribution according to 1991 Water Accord," Daily Times (Pakistan), September 29, 2005.
• Tran Dinh Thanh Lam, "Vietnam: Water Wars Aplenty as Taps Run Dry or Dirty," Inter Press Service, October 11, 2005.
• Carmelo Ruiz Marrero, "Water Privatization in Latin America," Americas Program, International Relations Center, October 18, 2005.
• Glen Martin, "The California Water Wars. Water Flowing to Farms, Not Fish. Environmentalists lose leverage as agribusiness locks in cheap, plentiful supplies -- for decades," San Francisco Chronicle, October 23, 2005.
• Steve Grant, "The Water Wars. Pressures Mount On The Legendary Waterway, Reducing Its Flow," The Hartford Courant, October 23, 2005.
• Peter Gasston, "Water Wars: Covert Strikes," perfect.co.uk, November 7, 2005.
• Moffat Mamu, "Critical water shortage," Solomon Star News (Solomon Islands), November 15, 2005.
• Margaret Munro, "Severe shortages might spark 'water wars,' report says," CanWest News Service (Montreal Gazette), November 17, 2005.
• Oliver Balch, "The trickle-away effect. Multinational water companies once beat a path to buy up privatised operators in Argentina. Now they are desperate to get out," Guardian (UK), November 21, 2005.
• "Water shortage panics China city," BBC, November 22, 2005.
• Joshua Holland, "On Tap at the WTO: Private Water," AlterNet (labournet.net), December 18, 2005.
• Stephen P. Gasteyer, "Privateers. Global corporations compete with local initiatives for failing municipal services," World View Magazine Online, Winter 2005.
• "The Next Threat: Water Privatization," El Salvador Watch, Winter 2005/2006.