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The Parched Tiger: India’s Dam Plans Anger Pakistan, Symbolize Global Water Woes
May 22nd, 2012
Via the South Asian News Agency, a look at South Asia’s water worries: ITS three great basins – the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra – are the most densely populated area in the world. The Ganges alone supports half a billion people. Seventy per cent of South Asia’s 1.5 billion people live in farming […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Water And Climate Change Challenges
May 10th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting article on Pakistan’s climate change and water challenges: Last month, an avalanche on the Siachen glacier in Kashmir killed 124 Pakistani soldiers and 11 civilians. The tragedy has intensified debate about the logic of stationing Pakistani and Indian troops on such inhospitable terrain. And it has also brought attention to […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Beckoning War On Water?
May 6th, 2012
Via Pakistan’s The Nation, an article the rising water tension between India and Pakistan. As the article notes: India’s feverish pursuit of building dams on the rivers allocated to Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has received the attention of the International Crisis Group (ICG) whose objective is to evaluate the consequences of a […]
Read more »Pakistan And India: Another Water Battle Looming?
May 4th, 2012
Via the Third Pole, an article on how Pakistan is gearing up for a new water fight with India: The never-ending war over water resources between India and Pakistan has taken a new twist. Pakistan has registered its resentment against the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for a decision to grant carbon […]
Read more »Why India and Pakistan Are Squaring Off Over Their Rivers
April 17th, 2012
Courtesy of Time, a look at the water tensions between India and Pakistan: India’s Wular Lake, a popular picnic and tourist spot nestled in the Kashmir Valley, is an unlikely site for conflict. But India’s plan to build a structure on the Jhelum River at the mouth of the lake that will allow it to […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India And Pakistan Move To Avert Water Wars
April 9th, 2012
Via Pakistan’s The International News, a report of Indian and Pakistani support of a new mechanism to avoid water issues. As the article notes: Pakistan and India have agreed in principle of a need to set up an independent office of the Indus Water Commission (IWC) comprising neutral experts from outside the South Asian region […]
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