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The Parched Tiger: India And Pakistan To Go To War over Water?
April 7th, 2012
Via Oil Price.com, an article on the water tensions between India and Pakistan: A peaceful and stable Pakistan is integral to western efforts to pacify Afghanistan, but Islamabad’s obsessions with its giant eastern neighbor may render such issues moot. Since partition in 1947, Pakistan and India have fought four armed conflicts, in 1947, 1965, 1971 […]
Read more »World Bank Increases Support For Trans-Boundary Management Of The Mekong
April 7th, 2012
Via Xinhua.net, a report that the World Bank is augmenting its support of the trans-boundary management initiatives for the Mekong. As the article notes: The World Bank has committed more than 63.7 billion kip (about 8 million U.S. dollars) to the Mekong River Commission (MRC) to promote trans-boundary management of regional river resources. While there […]
Read more »Bangalore’s Water Requirements: “Over The Roof….Water Wars To Heat Up”
April 5th, 2012
Via India’s IBN, a report on Bangalore’s bubbling water tensions: The exponential growth of the city area (including the erstwhile eight urban local bodies), has pushed up Bangalore’s water requirements over the roof. Water demand in the summer season shoots up anywhere between 20 to 40 per cent in the city. Vigyanapura is feeling the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: The Dams of Chongqing
April 3rd, 2012
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at China’s plans to build more dams along the Yangtze: Mapmakers and geologists divide the Yangtze River, the third largest in the world, into three sections: China’s mighty “Mother River” begins in the Tibetan plateau, slowly gathering strength as it meanders through a relatively barren expanse of rock and […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Proposal To Link Rivers Sparks Concern In Neighboring Countries
April 3rd, 2012
Via The BBC, an article on how a supreme court order in India asking the government to link more than 30 rivers and divert waters to parched areas has sparked concerns in neighbouring countries. As the report notes: “…Bangladesh says it would be hardest hit because it is a downstream country to two major rivers […]
Read more »Yemen: Being Sucked Dry
March 29th, 2012
Via Reuters, a look at Yemen’s increasingly desperate water situation: With a belch of acrid, greasy smoke and a jolt that shakes its moorings, the pump on Yemeni water farmer Jad al-Adhrani’s plot of land roars to life, and the race to squeeze the last drop of water out of Yemen’s parched earth resumes. Gesturing […]
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