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The Parched Tiger: India’s Drive Towards Water Efficiency To Take On Diminishing Supplies
October 29th, 2013
Via the Third Pole, a report on India’s drive towards water use efficiency as one key to tackling the country’s diminishing supplies: Water shortages are leading to crop failure and health concerns in India With 17% of the global population, India has only 4% of the world’s renewable water resources. From 1,816 cubic metres in […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon And Parched Tiger: India, China Ink Key Accord On River Information
October 25th, 2013
Via Peak Water, an update on Indian – Chinese water relations: “The Memorandum of Understanding on trans-border rivers was inked after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in the Great Hall of the People here. According to sources, the agreement is a “major diplomatic achievement” as it is the first […]
Read more »The Battery of South Asia? The Potential for India-Nepal Hydropower Cooperation
October 24th, 2013
Via Future Directions International, a look at potential for hydropower cooperation in south Asia: Key Points Regional leaders have appealed to Nepal to strengthen hydropower cooperation with India, to address Nepal’s domestic economic and energy crises. The close proximity and economic strength of India have made it the best candidate to boost Nepal’s hydropower potential. […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Indus Waters Treaty – An Unjustified Resentment Or Time To Bridge A River Divide?
October 12th, 2013
Two very interesting articles on the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty which – while not perfect – represents the best that was possible in the circumstances that prevailed then and likely cannot be changed until India-Pakistan relations improve. The first, via The Hindu, suggests: The Indus Water Treaty must move beyond its logic of compensation and […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon And Parched Tiger: India ‘Pressuring’ China On Brahmaputra
October 10th, 2013
Via The Hindu, an interesting look at India / China water tensions: Li Zhifei, a scholar at the National Institute of International Strategy of the influential Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, wrote in a commentary on Tuesday in the Global Times, a tabloid published by the People’s Daily known for its hawkish views, that India […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Black Market For Water Expands In Delhi
September 19th, 2013
Via The New York Times, a look at India’s water mafia: Residents, in New Delhi, lining up cans on the road and waiting for government tankers to deliver drinking water on June 15, 2012. NEW DELHI— On a recent afternoon, as an intense stench rose from a carcass dump, a group of women pushed, shoved, […]
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