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South Asia: Running Out Of Groundwater
March 27th, 2015
Via SciDev, a summary of the recent UN World Water Development Report (WWDR 2015), Water for a Sustainable World 2015, which notes the following: South Asia and China account for nearly half of the world’s groundwater use Per capita water availability in South Asia has been dropping dramatically Continued groundwater extraction will deepen the water crisis in […]
Read more »Sharing of Teesta Water Critical for India-Bangladesh Relations
February 11th, 2015
Via Future Directions International, a look at India and Bangladesh’s sharing of the Teesta River: Bangladesh is a lower riparian state to the 53 rivers that it shares with India. As a result, the country is vulnerable to the interests of its upstream neighbour. The Ganga Water Sharing Treaty of 1996 remains the only water-sharing […]
Read more »Geopolitics Of The Brahmaputra-Ganges-Meghna River Basin
January 1st, 2015
Courtesy of On People, Rivers, and Migration, an interesting article on the geopolitics of the Brahmaputra-Ganges-Meghna River Basin: Figure 1: Map of Brahmaputra-Ganges-Meghna basin and countries’ hydro-strategic positions Figure 1 illustrates the regional areas covered by the Brahmaputra-Ganges-Meghna river basin. The area shaded light grey is the area covered by the Ganges river. Dark grey […]
Read more »Taming The Brahmaputra
April 20th, 2014
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at Bangladesh’s efforts to tame the Brahmaputra river: A MAN-MADE spur juts into the mighty Jamuna river—known as the Brahmaputra upstream, over the border in India—near the town of Enayetpur. The solid wall was built, expensively, to control the massive flow of the river. But erosion now eats deep […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Tensions Over The Yarlung Tsangpo River
March 11th, 2014
Courtesy of China Dialogue, a close three-part look at the Yarlung Tsangpo river – one of the world’s great transboundary rivers – which starts on the Tibetan Plateau before passing through India and Bangladesh. As background, the Yarlung Tsangpo Brahmaputra-Jamuna river, begins in the high glaciers of the Tibetan Himalaya. Its most dramatic passages come […]
Read more »Triumverate Behind Bhutan’s Hydropower
May 26th, 2013
Via The Financial Express, a report on a plan for 3 nations jointly move to build hydropower plants in Bhutan: Bangladesh, India and Bhutan will jointly construct cost-effective hydropower projects in Bhutan for mutual benefits, a top official said. Three neighbouring countries in South Asia have, for the first time, agreed to move jointly to […]
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