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Tourist Killings Test Limits of India’s Water Diplomacy
May 4th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at how a recent terrorist attack could undermine India’s water treaty with Pakistan: The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) between India and Pakistan has long been hailed as a rare success in transboundary water sharing. It has stood as a beacon of cooperation between two hostile neighbors. Under the treaty, upstream India reserved […]
Read more »How America Decided Who Gets Water And Who Doesn’t
May 3rd, 2025
Via PBS, an interesting short video on how water isn’t just a resource — it’s a battleground where the sacred meets the stolen. As the Great Salt Lake loses its vitality, who gets clean water? Who profits from scarcity? And who gets left out to dry? Hosted by Harini Bhat, In The Margins covers the […]
Read more »War or Peace on the Indus?
May 3rd, 2025
Via South Asian Idea, a historical commentary on the Indus water treaty from a renowned water scholar: Anyone foolish enough to write on war or peace in the Indus needs to first banish a set of immediate suspicions. I am neither Indian nor Pakistani. I am a South African who has worked on water issues […]
Read more »Undermining The Indus Waters Treaty Imperils Indian Security
May 3rd, 2025
Via The Financial Times, commentary on how New Delhi’s efforts to downgrade ties with Islamabad will inflict damage on both sides of the border: The Indus Waters Treaty has withstood three wars between its nuclear-armed signatories, India and Pakistan. But last week, in the wake of a brutal terrorist attack in Pahalgam, a town in […]
Read more »How California Farmers Can Recharge Aquifers They’ve Drained
May 2nd, 2025
Via Grist, a look at how – in the drought-stricken Central Valley – researchers have found a win-win for growers: In parts of California’s Central Valley, so much groundwater has been pumped out of the ground to deal with the region’s persistent drought that the land is starting to sink in. Underground aquifers — layers of […]
Read more »Morocco’s ‘Water Highway’ Saves Cities From Thirst
May 2nd, 2025
Via France24, a report on how Morocco is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tapping northern rivers to supply water to parched cities farther south: Morocco has spent $728 million so far on what it dubs a “water highway” to redirect the surplus flow of the Sebou River to meet the drinking water needs of capital Rabat […]
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