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Pakistan’s India Obsession Hides Its Real Water Challenges
April 27th, 2017
Via Third Pole.net, further commentary on how extensive coverage of the Indus Waters Treaty in the Pakistani media over-emphasizes disagreements with India, and ignores more important water management challenges that the country faces: Over the past few months, with the deterioration of relations between Pakistan and India, there has been a renewed interest in the Indus Waters […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Bangladeshis Won’t Accept Anything Short of Teesta Treaty With India
April 26th, 2017
Via The Third Pole, an interview with with Bangladesh’s former top diplomat on the Teesta, India-Bangladesh water relations, the Farakka Barrage, and the future of the Ganga Treaty: The Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh between 2007 and 2009, Mohammed Touhid Hossain had earlier been the country’s Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata, and is a well-known authority on […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Soothing Troubled Waters Essential for India and Pakistan
March 29th, 2017
Via Future Directions International, commentary on Indus River tensions: Background The Permanent Indus Commission implements and manages the objectives of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT). In 1947, immediately after independence, India and Pakistan, the two major beneficiaries of the Indus River basin, began to dispute their share of the natural resource. It took years of […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: PMO Told That Water Wars Are Near In ‘Water-Stressed’ India
March 26th, 2017
Via the New Indian Express, an article on India’s water stress: With demand outstripping supply of water, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is waking up to the possibility of water scarcity triggering social unrest in the country and leading to water wars between states. “The growing scarcity of water is manifesting itself in the form […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Tibet’s Waters for Xinjiang – Another Diversion of the Brahmaputra?
March 22nd, 2017
Via Claude Arpi, commentary on another potential plan for diverting the headwaters of the Yalung Tsangpo river: I often mentioned on this blog, the different ‘diversion’ schemes, whether of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) or the Indus River. Now, a new one has come to light. According to an official Chinese website, during the ‘Two Sessions’, […]
Read more »Asia’s Water Politics Near the Boiling Point
March 21st, 2017
Via Inter Press, commentary on Asia’s escalating water challenge: In Asia, it likely will not be straightforward water wars. Prolonged water scarcity might lead to security situations that are more nuanced, giving rise to a complex set of cascading but unpredictable consequences, with communities and nations reacting in ways that we have not seen in […]
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