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The Parched Tiger: UN Report Predicts Grim Scenario For India
March 24th, 2014
Via the Times of India, an article on a recent UN report looking at water stress around the world: As the world is already staring at impending water crisis due to climate change, population increase and pollution, a UN report has predicted that as many as 3.4 billion people will be living in “water-scarce” countries […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Battle On The Brahmaputra
March 21st, 2014
Via BBC News, an interesting look at China and India’s race to capture the energy potential of the vast Brahmaputra river: On the banks of the Brahmaputra it is hard to get a sense of where the river starts and ends. It begins far away as a Tibetan mountain stream. On the floodplains of Assam, though, […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Tensions Over The Yarlung Tsangpo River
March 11th, 2014
Courtesy of China Dialogue, a close three-part look at the Yarlung Tsangpo river – one of the world’s great transboundary rivers – which starts on the Tibetan Plateau before passing through India and Bangladesh. As background, the Yarlung Tsangpo Brahmaputra-Jamuna river, begins in the high glaciers of the Tibetan Himalaya. Its most dramatic passages come […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Big Dams Create Big Problems In Northeast India
March 1st, 2014
Via the India Water Portal, a look at how hydropower development is creating various types of conflict in Northeast India: Northeast India has been in turmoil over the last two decades or so because of unbridled hydropower development in the region. This article is an effort to understand the extent of hydropower development in the […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Increasing Signs Of Crisis In India’s Water Sector in 2013
January 18th, 2014
Via the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers, and People, a summary look at water issues facing India at the end of 2013: Year-end provides a wonderful opportunity for us to take stock of siatuations. If we look at India’s water sector, the above-average rainfall in 2013 monsoon would mean good agricultural production. But the […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Trans-Boundary Water Resources And Uneven Development In Contemporary India
December 14th, 2013
Via Taylor & Francis Online, a detailed look at the already divisive politics of South Asia’s trans-boundary water resources which are further complicated by the rush to construct large- and medium-scale dams in India today: Crisis has many different meanings associated with it, both theoretically and in the particular context of India’s political economy. 1 […]
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