Exploring BRI facilities to strengthen maritime security

In the context of an ever-growing focus of international politics on Asia in the twenty-first century, Bangladesh's geo-strategic location in the Bay of Bengal provides the country with a significant strategic maritime space. Bangladesh is located on the northern border of the Bay of Bengal with about a 710 kilometre-long...

Quenching humanity's freshwater thirst creates a salty threat

Starting from a few, mostly Middle Eastern facilities in the 1960s, today almost 16,000 desalination plants are in operation in 177 countries, producing 95 million cubic meters of freshwater every day - equal to about half the flow over Niagara Falls.Falling economic costs of desalination and the development in membrane...