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The Parched Tiger: Rural India Runs Dry as Thirsty Megacity Mumbai Sucks Water
June 14th, 2024
Via Terra Daily, a report on the impact that Mubai’s water demands have upon rural communities: Far from the gleaming high-rises of India’s financial capital Mumbai, impoverished villages in areas supplying the megacity’s water are running dry — a crisis repeated across the country that experts say foreshadows terrifying problems. “The people in Mumbai drink […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Climate Change Adds to Water Woes in the Andaman Islands
June 14th, 2024
Via Dialogue Earth, a look at the Indian archipelago which is a case study in why water supply is an increasingly big problem for small islands: As clouds gathered on the horizon one morning in late May, the residents of Kadamtala in India’s Andaman Islands were elated. “That was the first signs of rain in […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Drying Up – What Urban India Needs to Fix its Water Problem
June 13th, 2024
Via the Indian Express, a report on India’s water crisis: Reduced river flows and falling water tables have made the summer harsher in several parts of the country. In Karnataka, the season began early, in March, when the drought, which carried over from last year, created and aggravated a water crisis in the state’s capital, […]
Read more »Why the Warming Himalaya Are A Water Crisis for Half of Asia
June 2nd, 2024
Via Spotify, an interesting podcast on As the planet warms, with north India’s plains sweltering under an unprecedented heat wave, Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than ever before. On current trends, glaciers in just the Eastern Himalayas, which include Nepal and Bhutan, will lose up to 75 per cent of their ice in the near […]
Read more »India and Pakistan Can Future-Proof Their Threatened Rivers
May 29th, 2024
Via OneWater, a look at how India and Pakistan can future-proof their threatened rivers: > India has signalled its intention to re-negotiate the Indus Water Treaty > Climate change has profoundly impacted the rivers governed by the Treaty > To future-proof their rivers, leaders in India and Pakistan will need to shape a different approach […]
Read more »India’s Teesta River Funding: Ambition or Illusion?
May 23rd, 2024
Courtesy of the Asia Times, an article on how India can strengthen its relationship with Bangladesh and counterbalance China’s growing regional influence: During a visit to Dhaka on May 8-9, Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra expressed India’s interest in financing the Teesta River project, marking a significant shift in India’s engagement with Bangladesh regarding this […]
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