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Water: A Determining Factor in Future Regional Conflicts in South Asia
June 27th, 2008

Via The Asia Sentinel, an insightful look at how the decades-old competition for water complicates the already-bitter relationship between India and her neighbors.  As the article notes: “…Water is destined to be a determining factor in the regional conflicts of South Asia in the years to come, particularly between India and Pakistan. Unquestionably one of […]

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Water & Politics in Bangladesh’s “Waterworld”
January 21st, 2008

An excellent article by Robert Kaplan in the January/February ’08 edition of The Atlantic Monthly, examining the catastrophic threats that global warming & climate change hold for Bangladesh, a nation already with too little land for its 150 million people. While the majority of the report focuses on the massive impacts that rising sea levels […]

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