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Liquid Front Lines: South Asia’s Water Wars
November 8th, 2025
Via The Economist, a look at how climate change and rising energy demand could worsen conflict over rivers: RARELY CALM, the cross-border politics of South Asia’s great rivers have been roiling of late. In late October Afghanistan revealed plans to build dams on the Kabul river, rankling Pakistan, with which it had skirmished on the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: COP30 and China’s Tibetan Plateau Paradox
November 7th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at how China’s stewardship of the Third Pole will shape not only Asia’s water security but the credibility of global climate cooperation. Amid the crowded headlines on the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, another transformation of considerable consequence is unfolding quietly on the roof of the world. The Tibetan […]
Read more »Drinking Water In Tehran Could Run Dry In Two Weeks
November 5th, 2025
Via Al Jazeera, a report on Tehran’s increasingly urgent water crisis: The main source of drinking water for residents of the Iranian capital Tehran is at risk of running dry within two weeks, according to state media, due to a historic drought plaguing the country. The Amir Kabir Dam, one of five that provide drinking […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: How India and Pakistan’s Cooperation Over Water Has Avoided Conflict
November 3rd, 2025
Via Vision of Humanity, a look at how India and Pakistan’s shared dependence on the Indus River has, for six decades, been governed by an agreement that has outlasted wars, political upheavals and climatic shocks: The Ecological Threat Report 2025 describes the Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan as a “core conflict-resolution tool and […]
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