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The Parched Tiger: Protests Break Out After India Rules In Favor of Downstream State In River Dispute
October 4th, 2012
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on a decades-long quarrel over water allocations that has boiled up again during India’s dry summer, ending in farmer protests and increased security: The Cauvery River flows past Srirangapatna in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Water allocations from the river have soured relations between Karnataka and its […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Pakistan May Lose 13% Water If India Builds Kishanganga Dam
October 1st, 2012
Via HydroWorld, a report on Pakistan’s concerns over planned Indian dams upstream: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Neelum Jehlum Hydro Electric Project retired Lieutenant General Zubair has warned that Pakistan may lose13 per cent water worth $141 million on Neelum Jehlum, if India succeeds in building Kishanganga dam. He was giving briefing to the National […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India Most Vulnerable G-20 Nation to Water Stress
September 21st, 2012
Via Bloomberg, an article on a report on India’s water risk: India, the second-biggest producer of rice, wheat and sugar, is the most vulnerable among the world’s leading industrial and emerging economies to future water stress, according to HSBC Holdings Plc. India exhibits the most worrying trends among the Group of 20 nations with the […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Internal Water Dispute
September 21st, 2012
Courtesy of Times of India, an article on India’s internal water tensions as a water shortage in India’s Cauvery River Basin has pitted the state of Karnataka against its southern neighbor, Tamil Nadu: Totally rejecting the formula suggested by Cauvery River Authority (CRA) headed by Prime minister Manmohan Singh on water sharing, Karnataka has said […]
Read more »A New Course For The Brahmaputra
August 20th, 2012
Courtesy of ThirdPole.net, commentary on how policymakers must put the needs of people and ecosystems before national strategic goals in order to rethink development along the Brahmaputra River: In discussions about managing international rivers, it is generally assumed that countries sharing a river can and should work cooperatively for hydropower and, by extension, economic development. […]
Read more »Harnessing South Asia’s Rivers
August 20th, 2012
Via Third Pole.net, an interesting look at how government negotiations have failed to improve water cooperation in South Asia, but a new regulatory body that encompasses the entire Himalayan watershed may offer a way forward: Historic power outages in India this month deprived 670 million people of electricity, more than any previous global outage. These […]
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