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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 […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon And Parched Tiger: Why The Time For A China-India Water Treaty Is Now
July 23rd, 2012
Via CNN, some commentary on China and India’s water relationship: China and India need to reach agreement on how they will manage water from one of the world’s great rivers — the Yarlung-Zangbo-Brahmaputra — before it becomes another serious impediment to relations between the two Asian heavyweights. Water scarcity already affects large parts of China […]
Read more »Blocked Data Hampers Water Management Efforts In The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin
July 19th, 2012
Via Asia Pacific Memo, a report on the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river basin: The discussion is widening on the thorny problem of sharing water and managing trans-boundary flows among the five countries in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river basin. Data and information on land use changes, river bed and flow regime changes, and actual stages of construction […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Pakistan To Face Severe Water Shortage If India Continues Its Hydropower Push
July 13th, 2012
Via Pakistan’s Daily Times, a report on the controversial KHEP power project in India and its impact on Pakistan: Pakistan would likely face severe water shortage if it does not plead judiciously over the controversial 330 megawatts (MW) Kishanganga Hydro Electric Power (KHEP) project in India. Pakistan has yet to decide the head and the […]
Read more »Managing South Asia’s Himalayan Rivers
June 30th, 2012
Via East Asia Forum, an article on the issues of managing south Asia’s rivers: The great Himalayan rivers of South Asia, particularly the Ganges and Brahmaputra, have been the subject of five decades of discussion between governments of the region. While the discussions have continued, these rivers have contributed, through flood and drought, to the […]
Read more »Mumbai, Delhi Lead in Need for Water
June 29th, 2012
Via BusinessWeek, an article on a report forecasting future water demand in the world’s largest cities. As the article notes: Mumbai and New Delhi, India’s most populous cities, may experience the biggest increase in demand for water among the world’s largest cities from 2010 to 2025, the McKinsey Global Institute said today. Water demand in […]
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