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Peace Through Water? Why South Asia Needs A Kabul River Treaty
December 2nd, 2011
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting report on south Asia water tensions emanating from the Kabul River. As the article notes: Pakistan is once again accusing India of water hegemony. This time, however, the accusation refers not to Indian damming of the Western Rivers in the disputed regions of Jammu and Kashmir, but to Indian support […]
Read more »UN Calls For More Water Cooperation In Central Asia
July 16th, 2011
Via Radio Free Europe, a report from the UN indicating that more cooperation among Central Asian states sharing the shores of a key river could be the key to future peace and security in the region: The Kokaral dam in the North Aral Sea In a fresh report, the UN Environmental Program, or UNEP, […]
Read more »Working Towards Afghanistan’s Water Security
May 19th, 2011
Courtesy of Columbia University’s State of the Planet, an interesting commentary on Afghanistan’s water challenges: Darunta Dam, Nangarhar Province, Eastern Afghanistan. U.S. Army 10th Aviation Brigade image When news that Navy Seals had killed Osama bin Laden reached U.S. television and Internet audiences last week, thousands converged upon Ground Zero in New York City and […]
Read more »India: Starting A Water Fight?
December 19th, 2009
Via Newsweek, a report that India may be positioning itself to gain control over two Afghan rivers . As the article notes: “…Washington has lately become concerned that Pakistan is dragging its feet in the fight against the Taliban because it sees the Islamists as a check on its archrival, India, whose influence in Afghanistan […]
Read more »A Dying Aral Sea Gives Rise To Increased Tensions In The Region
September 29th, 2009
Via Window on Eurasia, a report that demise of the Aral Sea, the loss of which is already having an adverse effect on two-thirds of the 50 million people in Central Asia, is rapidly increasing tensions in the capitals of the five countries of the region and could spark new and larger military conflicts among […]
Read more »Water Politics, The Afghan War, and Climate Change
September 5th, 2009
Via Greenfryer, a report that among the many causes for conflict in southern Afghanistan, the lack of water may be to blame. As the article notes, Pakistan receives some of the waters of the Kabul River, and Iran from the Helmand, both of which are suffering from drought & climate change: “…Those who follow the […]
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