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The Parched Tiger: Pakistan Approaches World Bank Over Kashmir Dam
April 5th, 2018
Via The Quint, an article on Pakistan’s approach to the World Bank over the Kishanganga dam in Kashmir: Pakistan approached the World Bank to complain that India despite the arbitrator’s pause period had completed the construction of the disputed $860-million Kishanganga hydropower project in Jammu and Kashmir. Dawn newspaper, citing an unnamed official, reported on Thursday […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Pakistan Must Stop Blaming India for Its Water Woes
April 4th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, a look at the simmering water tensions between India and Pakistan: Delegates from India and Pakistan met in India from 29 to 30 March as part of the annual meeting of the Indus Water Commission, a requirement under the Indus Water Treaty. It was the 114th meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission […]
Read more »Poisonous and Running Out: Pakistan’s Water Crisis
January 9th, 2018
Via Terra Daily, a report on Pakistan’s water crisis: Barely 15 days old, Kinza whimpers at an Islamabad hospital where she is suffering from diarrhoea and a blood infection, a tiny victim among thousands afflicted by Pakistan’s severely polluted and decreasing water supplies. Cloaked in a colourful blanket, Kinza moves in slow motion, like a […]
Read more »Parched For A Price: Karachi’s Water Crisis
December 20th, 2017
Via Al Jazeera, a report on how residents of Karachi, one of the largest cities in the world, are being held hostage by a ‘mafia’ that makes millions of dollars out of their need for water: Orangi is a maze, a spider’s web of narrow, winding lanes, broken roads and endless rows of small concrete […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: In Kashmir, India and Pakistan Race to Tap the Himalayas
December 20th, 2017
Via The Times of India, an article on India and Pakistan’s rivalry on the Neelum River which underlines both countries’ unquenchable need for freshwater: Several hundred metres underground, thousands of labourers grind away day and night on a mammoth hydroelectric project in contested Kashmir, where India and Pakistan are racing to tap the subcontinent’s diminishing […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Belt and Road Initiative Suffers a Double-Blow from Hydropower Agreements
November 29th, 2017
Via Future Directions International, a report on the rejection of two Chinese hydropower projects in Asia: In May 2017, a number of memoranda of understanding were signed between China and Pakistan to construct several hydropower projects along the Indus River. The projects, known as the North Indus Cascade, include the development of five hydropower projects […]
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