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The Gorge Between China and India on Hydropolitics
April 2nd, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on how miscommunication and misunderstood geography are confounding discussions about China’s planned dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo gorge: On Christmas Eve 2024, the Chinese government announced that it had approved the world’s largest – and, at $137 billion, most expensive – hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in the Eastern Himalaya, […]
Read more »The Indus in a Climate Crisis: Reassessing Punjab’s Cholistan Canal Project
April 1st, 2025
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at how the proposed Cholistan Canal project in Punjab has ignited a critical debate against the backdrop of an escalating climate crisis, placing Pakistan’s lifeline, the Indus River, under unprecedented strain: The proposed Cholistan Canal project in Punjab has ignited a critical debate against the backdrop of an escalating climate […]
Read more »Bangladesh Delegation Visits India To Discuss Sharing of Water Resources
March 6th, 2025
Via The Tribune, an article on recent discussions between Bangladesh and India around water. The Ganges is one of the 54 rivers shared by India and Bangladesh. Long-standing differences over its water sharing were resolved with the signing of the Ganges Water Treaty on December 12, 1996, by then-Indian Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda and […]
Read more »Why A Mega River-Linking Project Has Sparked Massive Protests In India
February 27th, 2025
Via BBC, a report on why a mega river-linking plan has sparked massive protests in India Thousands of villagers in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are protesting against a multi-million-dollar river-linking project which, they say, will rob them of their homes and livelihoods. The Ken-Betwa project, with a budget of 440bn rupees ($5.06bn; […]
Read more »What’s Driving China’s Controversial Mega-Dam in Tibet?
February 14th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, commentary on how – while the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has sparked concerns in India – from China’s perspective it is mostly motivated by domestic factors: On December 25, 2024, Chinese state media Xinhua reported that the country had officially approved the construction of what will be the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: ‘Dam for a Dam’ – China and India’s Dam War In Himalayas
January 30th, 2025
Via The Week, a look at Delhi’s response to Beijing’s plans for a huge dam in Tibet? Build a huge dam of its own right nearby India is building a giant hydropower dam near the Siang river to counter a huge Chinese dam further north. But this latest move in a tit-for-tat saga of water […]
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