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Pakistan’s Water Experts: Fear For The Country’s Future
June 15th, 2016
Courtesy of The Third Pole, a look at how – as its population explodes – Pakistan stares at a future where it will be a water scarce country: Dams, dams and more dams – of all sizes and kinds need to be built on a war footing because failing to do so would be disastrous […]
Read more »Colombia: Rough Waters Ahead
June 7th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of how Colombia’s abundant water does not mean security: Colombia has made great strides in advancing peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), improving the prospect of peace with the guerrilla movement and finally settling the country’s longtime security threat. But another crisis of sorts is seeping through […]
Read more »The Regional Story Behind Afghanistan’s Salma Dam
June 6th, 2016
Via The Wire, a report on the recently completed Salma dam in Herat, Afghanistan: For over ten years, the construction of the Salma dam has stretched the capacity of Indian diplomacy, administration and engineering to its limits, as New Delhi kept track of competing warlords on one side to maintain security, and the finance ministry’s beancounters on Raisina […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Crisis Demands More Than Grand Projects
June 6th, 2016
Via The Conversation, an interesting look at potential solutions to India’s water crisis: India is facing one of its most serious droughts in recent memory – official estimates suggest that at least 330m people are likely to be affected by acute shortages of water. As the subcontinent awaits the imminent arrival of the monsoon rains, […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India Can Avoid Water Wars By Mixing Old and New Solutions
June 6th, 2016
Via The Hindustan Times, an interesting article on India’s water crisis: Drinking water shortages are known to spark scuffles , but last week, it led to Sunil Giri, 23, losing his life. Giri was beaten to death in the Ramgarh district of Jharkhand for objecting to his neighbour Anwar Hussain taking more than his share […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Severe Drought Causing Havoc
June 3rd, 2016
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a detailed update on India’s water crisis, where water scarcity is forcing millions of rural Indian into already over-crowded cities: On Monday, as it’s been for weeks now, hundreds of farmers from mountainous Bundelkhand, a drought-ravaged region of north central India, climbed down from the Mahakaushal Express and headed for […]
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