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Taliban’s Hydropower Plans Raise Concerns In Pakistan
December 24th, 2023
Via Radio Free Europe, commentary on how the Taliban’s ambitious plans to build a dam on the Kunar River in Afghanistan are raising hackles in Islamabad: Plans by the Afghan Taliban to build a hydroelectric dam on a major river in eastern Afghanistan have raised concerns in neighboring Pakistan. A spokesman for the Taliban’s Water and Energy […]
Read more »Multiple Climate Reports Warn of Water Conflict in South Asia
December 22nd, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a report on South Asia, a region is expected to suffer the most significant impacts of changing water availability this century: At the 28th edition of the World Climate Summit (COP28) in Dubai, Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal made a strong pitch for immediate implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Despite near-zero contribution […]
Read more »Key Climate Battle: Saving Himalayan Ice
December 19th, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at how – from Afghanistan to China – vanishing glaciers risk floods and drought for billions: Filmmaker and environmental activist Jamyang Jamtscho Wangchuk brought a bit of his beloved Himalayas to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai last week. Around 250 milliliters of it, to be precise. In a plastic […]
Read more »Kabul Residents Endure Hours-Long Queues in Severe Water Crisis
December 15th, 2023
Via InterPress Service, a report on Afghanistan’s growing water scarcity crisis: According to United Nations statistics, nearly 80 percent of Afghan families lack access to sufficient water for their daily needs. Afghanistan, a landlocked country with limited water resources, is grappling with an exacerbated drought fueled by climate change, affecting the entire region. In the […]
Read more »Taliban Vow To Finish Disputed Canal At ‘Any Cost’
December 10th, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on the Taliban’s vow to finish a disputed canal at ‘any cost’ despite its Central Asian neighbors crying foul over its plans to tap shared river: A massive canal project in Afghanistan has alarmed the country’s neighbors over fears it will drain a river key to their agricultural economies, but […]
Read more »The Qosh Tepa Canal: A Source of Hope in Afghanistan
December 1st, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a report on the Qosh Tepal Canal project which faces many challenges, not the least of which is unease in Central Asia about water security: In Afghanistan, a desolate landscape almost entirely secluded from the rest of the world and burdened by starvation and severe climate changes, my father finds comfort in […]
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