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Indus Water Treaty: Pakistan And India Under International Law
January 29th, 2023
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the Indus Water Treaty: Water is increasingly being recognized as one of the key impediments to development in arid and semiarid nations, where adequate quantity and quality of water for varied needs has already become a very tough challenge. All present trends point to a considerable growth in the complexity […]
Read more »Sinking Joshimath May Submerge India’s Hydropower Ambitions in the Himalayas
January 27th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a report on how large-scale land subsidence in one of India’s pilgrimage town has prompted widespread resistance to the construction of dams: Rapid land subsidence causing buildings to crack has left several thousand residents of Joshimath in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand deeply worried. Some residents have fledfor safety, and some have staged demonstrations. […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: How A Delhi District Stopped The Ground From Sinking
January 26th, 2023
Via the BBC, a report on how India is tackling subsidence caused by excessive groundwater extraction: India’s Himalayan town of Joshimath has been in the news for sinking slowly into ground because of uncontrolled construction and indiscriminate extraction of groundwater. Experts fear several cities in the country could meet the same fate. However, a neighbourhood […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Water Conservation Efforts Require Citizens’ Participation
January 15th, 2023
Via The Hindu, an article on Prime Minister Modi’s call for the nation’s citizens to participate in India’s water conservation efforts: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday underlined the importance of people’s participation in water conservation and said attempts by governments’ alone cannot be successful. “When the public is associated with a campaign, they also […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Pakistan’s Indus Delta Drying Up Due To Lack Of Adequate Inflow
January 10th, 2023
Via the Technology Times, a report that that Indus deltas are drying up due to the lack of adequate inflow: Delta is a place where the Indus River falls into the Arabian Sea in Kacho Chhan, near Thatta. The Indus is the world’s fifth largest delta, but it has been drying up due to a […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Between India And China, A River At The Centre Of Power Politics
December 30th, 2022
Via Outlook India , a report on how the border dispute and low levels of trust between China and India have prevented a water-sharing treaty or a more formalized water management system for the Brahmaputra river, of the sort that exists in the Nile, Mekong, or Danube basins: Just a few days after the Chinese […]
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