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South Asia’s Looming Water War
February 16th, 2023
Via Project Syndicate, commentary on how the Indus Waters Treaty – widely considered the world’s most generous water-sharing pact – is not meeting a “fair” standard for India, and it is in Pakistan’s interest to remedy that before more tension arises: More than six decades ago, the world’s most generous water-sharing pact was concluded. Under the Indus Waters […]
Read more »An Opportunity To Revisit The Indus Waters Treaty
February 8th, 2023
Via Modern Diplomacy, commentary on an opportunity to revisit the Indus Waters Treaty: Two days before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague was about to proceed with the hearing of “objected” hydro-power projects on tributaries, India issued a notice to Pakistan seeking amendments to the decades old and only pact that compels historic rivals […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India Escalates Water Conflict With Pakistan
February 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report on how India’s notice for the Indus Water Treaty’s modification comes in the wake of a series of hydroelectric projects planned on the Indus valley rivers in India: On January 25, two days before a Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague started its hearing on the dispute over the Indus Water […]
Read more »The Disastrous Colonial Redesign of Pakistan’s Rivers
February 3rd, 2023
Via YouTube, a video analysis of how British engineering of water infrastructure along the Indus River and its tributaries – notably a series of perennial canals, dam-like structures called barrages, and embankments built to extract as much water from the Indus as possible and convert much of Pakistan’s arid landscape into farmland – exacerbated the destruction […]
Read more »Indus Water Treaty: Pakistan And India Under International Law
January 29th, 2023
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the Indus Water Treaty: Water is increasingly being recognized as one of the key impediments to development in arid and semiarid nations, where adequate quantity and quality of water for varied needs has already become a very tough challenge. All present trends point to a considerable growth in the complexity […]
Read more »Don’t Forget About Water in 2023
January 21st, 2023
Via Geopolitical Futures, an article on water, a finite resource will have plenty of countries on edge in the coming year: On Jan. 16, the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources announced that Beijing invested more than 1 trillion yuan ($148 billion) on water resource management in 2022, a whopping 44 percent increase from the previous year. […]
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