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The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: China Resumes Sharing River Flow Data with India – A Fresh Start for Closer Water Co-Operation?
June 1st, 2018
Via Future Directions International, commentary on China’s recent decision to resume sharing river flow data with India: On 15 May, China resumed providing India with data on the flow of the Brahmaputra River, after ceasing to do so in 2017. The data is vital for flood planning in India and downstream Bangladesh during the monsoon […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Indian Dam Reduces Pakistan’s Indus Share
May 28th, 2018
Via The Asia Times, a report on how Pakistan is bracing for a potentially grave water crisis as India inaugurates new dam that will divert the crucial Kishanganga River: Pakistan is bracing for a grave water crisis because of climate change and India’s tacit ‘control and management policy’ on the flow of water from the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: China and India’s Disputes Spill Over Into Their Water Supply
May 23rd, 2018
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at growing water tension between China and India: Highlights Despite the size and importance of the massive interconnected river system China and India share (along with Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh), no integrated structure exists for its management, and the bilateral agreements that govern it are far from sufficient. […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: China Resumes Sharing Brahmaputra Data with India
May 17th, 2018
Via Third Pole, an update on the water data sharing between China and India which had stopped in 2017 after the border standoff between the two countries over Doklam: China has resumed providing water flow data on the Siang to India on May 15, according to officials in the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: 80% of Water Use In India Is For Agriculture
May 4th, 2018
Via Eurasia Review, an article on agricultural use of water in India: During the 2011 census, India entered the league of water deficient nations. A nation is considered water deficient if the per capita availability falls below 1700 cubic meters per person. The per capita water availability that fell by 15% during the first decade […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: China and India’s “Tug of Water” In Nepal
April 18th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, a look at China and India’s competing interest in Nepal’s water resources: The recently elected Nepalese Prime Minister, Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, made his first foreign trip, a visit to India, in early April. As he is generally seen as being “pro-China”, the visit would have soothed Indian fears that Nepal […]
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