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Water Scarcity: Threat To India and South Africa
January 24th, 2018
Via the Climate News Network, an article on how more than a third of India’s electricity supply is at risk from water scarcity, which also threatens urban life in parts of South Africa: Water scarcity is now a real threat in two developing countries at the forefront of efforts to reduce climate change, India and […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Asia’s Dangerous Thirst
January 24th, 2018
Via the Nikkei Asian Review, commentary on how rapidly growing demand for water is stoking tensions in Asia: In recent weeks, one of the most pristine Himalayan rivers has mysteriously turned black when entering India from Tibet, highlighting how China’s upstream tunneling, damming and mining activities might be causing major environmental contamination. The plight of […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: In Kashmir, India and Pakistan Race to Tap the Himalayas
December 20th, 2017
Via The Times of India, an article on India and Pakistan’s rivalry on the Neelum River which underlines both countries’ unquenchable need for freshwater: Several hundred metres underground, thousands of labourers grind away day and night on a mammoth hydroelectric project in contested Kashmir, where India and Pakistan are racing to tap the subcontinent’s diminishing […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Troubled Waters In Tibet
December 19th, 2017
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at the Highlights It is unlikely that India and China will wage an all out war over water sources in disputed territory, but verbal sparring between the two will intensify in 2018. For now, the dispute will be more a reflection of broader geopolitical dynamics than a […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: India Says Chinese Construction Dirtying Water
December 13th, 2017
Via ABCNews, a report on Indian complaints that Chinese upstream activity is disturbing the Brahmaputra river: Officials in India’s northeast are complaining that Chinese construction activity on the upper reaches of one of the largest rivers that flows into India are likely turning the waters downstream turbid and unfit for human consumption. Over the weekend, Sarbananda Sonowal, […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Nepal Scraps Hydro Project With Chinese Company; Indian Company To Get It?
November 16th, 2017
Via the Times of India, an article on an interesting decision by Nepal to cancel a hydro project that had previously been given to a Chinese company: In a decision which could have far reaching consequences in the region and for China, Nepal cancelled the Budhi Gandaki hydropower project which had been contracted to a Chinese company. […]
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