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The Parched Tiger: India, High Water, and Its Discontents
December 17th, 2022
Via JSTOR Daily, commentary on whether India’s hydro-hegemony on water from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region may help avoid war over this limited resource: The Tibetan Plateau has been described as the “roof of the world.” Surrounded by high mountains, including the Himalayan range, it’s the highest and largest plateau on the planet. It’s also one […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Shrinking Glaciers Threaten Chinese and Indian Energy Transitions
December 9th, 2022
Via Eco Business, a report on the worsening condition of the Parlung No. 4 glacier is causing concern over water supply, flood risk and the viability of hydropower, a key part of both China’s and India’s plans to become carbon neutral: As glaciers shrink and monsoon rainfall becomes more unpredictable due to climate change, uncertainty around the viability of […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Chinese Moves Complicate India-Bangladesh Dispute Over Teesta
October 24th, 2022
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at Dhaka’s water dilemma; while a deal with India on the Teesta River remains elusive, Beijing wants it to make up its mind on a Chinese project on the river: In the second week of October, a month after Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned from New Delhi without a […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Dams and Pakistan’s Water Crisis
October 17th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, a report on how Pakistan is being strangled by a chronic water shortage that stands to exacerbate tensions with its giant eastern neighbor, India: Thirteen-year-old Kaneez Sughra, a resident of Pakistan’s Orangi town near Karachi, has a strange problem. Every day, before coming to school, she has a choice to make about […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Grand Plan for Kashmir Dams
October 15th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, an article on seven new dams India is constructing in the fragile ecology of Indian-administered Kashmir will come at a high human and environmental cost: Until a few years ago, Ghulam Hassan Magray, 36, was living comfortably in his native village, Sewerbatti, located just on the banks of the Chenab River. Magray […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Climate Change Compounding India’s Water Crisis
October 7th, 2022
Via MIT Technology Review, a look at how droughts and floods have pushed the nation’s leaky, polluted, and half-done water systems to the brink: Severe droughts have drained rivers, reservoirs, and aquifers across vast parts of India in recent years, pushing the nation’s leaky, polluted water systems to the brink. More than 600 million Indians […]
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