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Will Inland Navigation Positively Shift South Asia’s Water Debate?
September 12th, 2016
Via Spotlight Nepal, a look at the possibility that if Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Arunachal, Meghalaya, Mizoram or Uttarakhand can see that containers from Europe or Japan can come to their doorsteps at Chatra or Chisapani and similar places elsewhere – and they could benefit from reduction in the cost of their goods – there would be […]
Read more »Iran: Caspian Water Transfer Project Under Consideration
September 8th, 2016
Via The Iran Project, a report on Iran’s consideration of a large scale water transfer project: A major project to channel water from the Caspian Sea to Iran’s central, arid province of Semnan is still under consideration, vice president and head of the Environmental Protection Organization of Iran, Masoumeh Ebtekar, said. Speaking to the Tasnim […]
Read more »Asia-Pacific: ‘Hot Spot For Water Insecurity’
September 6th, 2016
Via SciDev, a look at the stress on Asia-Pacific water resources from rising demand from users and an examination of how food growers have to compete for water with households, industries, power plants: Economies in the Asia-Pacific region cannot sustain their present dynamic growth “unless water is brought into the equation” as […]
Read more »Iran’s Pistachio Farms: Dying Of Thirst
September 6th, 2016
Via Seed Daily, a look at Iran’s water crisis and its impact on agriculture: The pistachio trees at the village in southern Iran are long dead, bleached white by the sun — the underground water reserves sucked dry by decades of over-farming and waste. The last farmers left with their families 10 years ago, and […]
Read more »Chinese Interests in Myanmar’s Dams: Balancing Internal Stability and Development
September 1st, 2016
Via Future Directions International, a report on China’s interest in Myanmar dams: Background The issue of Chinese-constructed Dams in South-East Asia has been the cause of much unrest in recent decades. Myanmar’s stop-start development of the Myistone Dam, one of Myanmar’s largest projects, overseen by the state owned ‘China Power Investment Corporation,’ received extensive coverage after […]
Read more »Indus Basin Groundwater Depletion: Unsteady Footings for India-Pakistan Relations
September 1st, 2016
Via Future Directions International, a report on growing tensions in the Indus Basin: Background In the discourse between India and Pakistan the issue of water sharing has gained prominence this year with the move by Pakistan to take India to The Hague. This was an issue over the damming of the rivers feeding Pakistan, namely […]
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