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The Parched Tiger: Why the India-Pakistan War Over Water Is So Dangerous
September 30th, 2016
Via Foreign Policy, a look at the how – as New Delhi and Islamabad trade nuclear threats and deadly attacks – a brewing war over shared water resources threatens to turn up the violence: Early on the morning of Sept. 29, according to India’s Defense Ministryand military, Indian forces staged a “surgical strike” in Pakistan-administered Kashmir that […]
Read more »Iran, Australia Sign Water Management Pact
September 28th, 2016
Via MEHR News, a report on a new water management pact between Iran and Australia: Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian and the Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Steven Ciobo in a meeting in Tehran signed a new cooperation pact on water management. Hamid Chitchian pointing to the signing of a memorandum of understanding […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Shrinking Water Supply + Rising Demand = Anger
September 26th, 2016
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at India, where shrinking water supply and rising demand is stirring anger: THE toll was not shocking by Indian standards: two dead, nearly 100 vehicles torched and some 400 “miscreants” arrested. Nor did the violence that erupted on September 12th in Bangalore, capital of the southern state of Karnataka, […]
Read more »Indus Waters Treaty Rides Out Latest Crisis
September 25th, 2016
Via The Third Pole, an interesting look at how a recent terrorist attack has led to the questioning of the Indus Waters Treaty in India, but officially there is no move to change or rescind it: The 1960 World Bank-mediated Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan is considered one of the great success stories of water diplomacy, especially […]
Read more »‘I am Lake Urmia’: A Social Media Initiative Focuses On Iran’s Environment
September 24th, 2016
Via The Guardian, an interesting look at how Iran’s Lake Urmia’s grim destiny reflects a wider trend of enviromental problems in Iran, including an over-reliance on dams, extreme weather patterns, climatic changes, poor irrigation practices and unregulated use of water: Long tucked away behind the mountains of northwest Iran, Lake Urmia is becoming a national symbol of environmental […]
Read more »Water Governance in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin
September 22nd, 2016
Via Future Directions International, a report on water governance in the Tigris-Euphrates basin: Key Points The states that share the water resources of the Tigris-Euphrates Basin have come close to creating a water sharing agreement in the past, but narrow self-interest derailed the project. Current regional political crises were caused, in part, by heightened food […]
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