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The Thirsty Dragon: Turning On The Tibetan Tap At The Expense of South Asia?
December 9th, 2008
Via The Circle of Blue and The Asia Times, two articles (one here and the other here) noting that – as China becomes increasingly stressed for water, it comes closer to slaking its thirst with Tibet’s Yalong Tsangpo River, known in India as the Brahmaputra. But international interests downstream worry about the impact on the […]
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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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