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India Relaxes Stance On Indus Water Dispute
December 16th, 2016
Via The Hindu, a report on how officials in India recently showed willingness to participate in talks with Pakistan over disputed hydroelectric projects in the Indus River Basin, despite earlier objections this month: Signalling a step back from tensions in the past month over the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan, India said there was “no reason” the two […]
Read more »2017 Shows Little Sign Of An End To Karachi’s Water Crisis
November 30th, 2016
Via Future Directions International, a report on Pakistan’s water stress, particularly on its largest city – Karachi: Karachi’s water supply comes mainly from two sources: the Keenjhar Lake, 120 kilometres northwest of Karachi, and the Hub Dam, 60 kilometres northwest. Years of on-going drought have left Pakistan’s largest city as the sixth most water-stressed city […]
Read more »World Bank Drawn Into Indus Waters Treaty Dispute
November 13th, 2016
Via Third Pole.net, a report on two separate processes by India and Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty that threaten to drag the World Bank into the dispute, and threaten to undermine the treaty: India has accused the World Bank of following procedures not in consonance with the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT). The IWT governs […]
Read more »Water Conflicts Looming Between South Asian Nuclear Powers Pose Global Threat
October 29th, 2016
Via the United Nations University’s Institute for Water, Environment, and Health, a review of a new book looking at the looming impact of water conflict in South Asia and the potential for Indus Basin development if India, Pakistan, China, and Afghanistan work together: The current political rhetoric between India and Pakistan underlines the risk of […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Would India Really Abrogate the Indus Waters Treaty?
October 27th, 2016
Via Global Risk Insights, commentary on the escalating India-Pakistan tensions surrounding Kashmir, in which New Delhi has not ruled out the possibility that it will abrogate the longstanding Indus Waters Treaty: Recent months have witnessed a dramatic escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan in relation to events in the Kashmir region. The historic standoff […]
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 […]
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