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India’s Unilateral Halt To Water Treaty: 4 Options Pakistan Can Take
June 29th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, commentary on options that Pakistan can take to take on India’s unilateral decision to halt the Indus Water Treaty: After military clashes between India and Pakistan broke out earlier this month — at more than three days’ duration, making them the most inflamed between the two countries in decades — a ceasefire was agreed on May 10. […]
Read more »For the Future of Water Conservation, Look to … Los Angeles?
June 29th, 2025
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how years of drought forced the city to rethink its water usage and, almost under the radar, to remake its identity. You’ve probably come across more stories about water woes in California than you can recall, so you may feel you’ve had enough for a while. […]
Read more »A Dam(n) Shame: Specter of Dams and Diversion Looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River
June 26th, 2025
Via Mongabay, a look at the specter of dams and diversion that looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River: The Salween River, one of Asia’s last free-flowing rivers, supports Indigenous communities and biodiversity across China, Myanmar and Thailand, but faces threats from at least 20 proposed hydropower dams, mainly in Myanmar. Myanmar’s postcoup instability has stalled […]
Read more »Intensifying Water Shortages in Central Asia will Spark Flood of Immigrants Into Russia
June 25th, 2025
Central Asians who have seen the amount of potable water available to them drop from 8400 cubic meters per capita per year a half century ago to only 2100 now, are certain to flood into the Russian Federation which has more than 20 percent of the world’s reserves of fresh water, Moscow historian Konstantin Menzelintsev […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India “Will Never Restore Indus Water Treaty”
June 21st, 2025
Via The Frontier Post, a report that India has adopted a very hard line about restoring the Indus water treaty with Pakistan: India will never restore the Indus Waters Treaty with Islamabad, and the water flowing to Pakistan will be diverted for internal use, Home Minister Amit Shah said in an interview with Times of […]
Read more »Gaza Faces ‘Man-Made’ Drought As Water Systems Collapse
June 20th, 2025
Via Reuters a report that Gaza is facing a ‘man-made’ drought: Gaza is facing a man-made drought as its water systems collapse, the United Nations’ children agency said on Friday. “Children will begin to die of thirst … Just 40% of drinking water production facilities remain functional,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva. […]
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