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Climate Change Threatens Asia’s Water Tower
April 7th, 2023
Via Eurasia News, an article on how climate change is threatening Asia’s water tower: Tibet is known as the “Water Tower of Asia,” providing water to about 2 billion people and supporting critical ecosystems in High Mountain Asia and the Tibetan Plateau, where many of the largest Asian river systems originate. This region is also […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Transboundary Water Governance is a Regional Security Issue in Asia
December 29th, 2022
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at how careful management of Asia’s hydropower resources is essential to ensure its positive impacts on climate change and avoid transboundary river conflicts: The Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding Hindu Kush-Himalayan regions, also known as the “Asian water tower,” is the source of 10 major Asian rivers. Abundant glacier ice […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: China’s Super Hydropower Dam and Fears of Sino-Indian Water Wars
December 17th, 2022
Via AsiaGlobal Online, a look at how the already-fraught relationship between China and India is becoming even more tense over Beijing’s plans to build a “super hydropower dam” in Tibet: Already fraught due to longstanding border disputes and recent military clashes, the relationship between China and India is becoming even more tense over Beijing’s plans […]
Read more »As Himalayan Glaciers Melt, A Water Crisis Looms In South Asia
October 4th, 2022
Via Yale e360, a look at how – as warmer air is thinning most of the vast mountain range’s glaciers, known as the Third Pole because they contain so much ice – the melting could have far-reaching consequences for flood risk and for water security for a billion people who rely on meltwater for their […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: The Imbalance of the Asian Water Tower
July 20th, 2022
Via Nature, an abstract on a new research paper on the Third Pole: The Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalayan system, named the Third Pole because it is the largest global store of frozen water after the polar regions, provides a reliable water supply to almost 2 billion people. Marked atmospheric warming has changed the balance of this so-called […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Chinese Lithium Find In Himalayas Raises Alarm Over Water
March 9th, 2022
Via EcoBusiness, an article on the potential hydro implications of recent Chinese claim of having found a “super large” deposit of lithium near Mount Everest: The recent discovery near Mount Everest of “super large” deposits of lithium, the key element in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has raised concerns over the fate of water resources in the region. […]
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