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Afghanistan’s Impending Water Crisis
October 25th, 2016
Via Third Pole.net, an interesting report on Afghanistan where decades of conflict have left Afghanistan’s water infrastructure in a mess, and an increasing number of refugees returning are pushing the country towards the prospect of water-related conflicts: Kabul city before the decades of conflict on the left, and now, on the right Hundreds of thousands […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India and Pakistan’s Struggle Over Water
October 21st, 2016
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting interview / commentary on the tensions heating up between India and Pakistan over key water sources in Kashmir, with India threatening to revoke the nearly 60-year-old Indus Water Treaty: Cody Pope for Circle of Blue: Good morning, and welcome to our first installment of Circle of Blue’s Hotspots […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Modi Lays Groundwork For Water War In Battle With Rival Pakistan
October 20th, 2016
Via Bloomberg, a look at recent water tensions between India and Pakistan: Himalayan rivers have become the new flash point in the bitter India-Pakistan conflict, providing the latest diplomatic weapon in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to isolate Islamabad. With India still reeling from an attack in Kashmir that killed 19 soldiers, New Delhi is looking to […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: The Danger Looming Over the Indus River Basin
October 18th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a graphical look at the Indus Water Treaty: Since 1960, India and Pakistan have abided by the Indus Waters Treaty, an agreement developed by the United Nations to govern the use of water along the Indus River and its main tributaries. But in the wake of an attack on a military base in the Indian-administered […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Is China Seeking To Make A Weapon of Water?
October 13th, 2016
Via the Daily Mail, a look at China’s regional water ambitions: China’s cutting off the flow of a Brahmaputra tributary is just the latest example of its emergence as the upstream water controller through a globally unparalleled hydro-engineering infrastructure centred on dams. Earlier this year, Beijing itself highlighted its water hegemony over downstream countries by […]
Read more »Vietnam’s Angst As China and Laos Dam the Mekong
October 13th, 2016
Via Mongabay, a detailed look at whether – given Laos’ aspirations to become the “battery of Asia” and Chinese dam builders intentions to make it so – Vietnam’s Mekong Delta will survive: Left: The Mekong River and its watershed. Right: The lower Mekong basin. This is the second article of an in-depth, four-part series […]
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