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The Parched Tiger: Pakistan To Face Severe Water Shortage If India Continues Its Hydropower Push
July 13th, 2012
Via Pakistan’s Daily Times, a report on the controversial KHEP power project in India and its impact on Pakistan: Pakistan would likely face severe water shortage if it does not plead judiciously over the controversial 330 megawatts (MW) Kishanganga Hydro Electric Power (KHEP) project in India. Pakistan has yet to decide the head and the […]
Read more »Pakistan: Kashmiris Fear Hydro Scheme Could Leave City High And Dry
June 6th, 2012
Via AlertNet, a look at the one city’s fears over a proposed hydro project in Kashmir: The Neelum River runs through the centre of Muzaffarabad, the main city of Pakistani-administered Kashmir. ALERTNET/Roshan Din Shad Residents and environmental experts in Muzaffarabad, Pakistani-administrated Kashmir’s main city, fear the diversion of a major river to generate hydroelectric power […]
Read more »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 […]
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