Via The Diplomat, a look at how climate change-induced water loss in the Tibetan Plateau further challenges water security from Central to Southeast Asia: A recently published study by a team of scientists from the University of Texas in Austin, Penn State, and Tsinghua University in?Nature climate change journal?found that?terrestrial water storage (TWS)?in the Qinghai-Tibet […]
Read more »Via Third Pole, an interview on the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, signed by India and Bangladesh in 1996, which is due to expire in 2026: The Ganges Water Sharing Treaty was signed by India and Bangladesh in 1996. The 30-year?treaty?was the culmination of decades of negotiation, and specifies the minimum level of water flow to […]
Read more »Via Eureka Alert, notice of a new study on the Asian Water Towers: The Third Pole centered on the Tibetan Plateau is home to headwaters of over 10 major Asian rivers. These glacier-based water systems, also known as the Asian Water Towers, will have to struggle to quench the thirst of downstream communities despite more […]
Read more »Via Outpost Magazine, a look at some of the glaciers feeding the Ganges river: Berinder and Karin are hidden under their loads with only their legs peeking out, pulling them relentlessly onward and upward. Our scattered porter team is a ragged line, coloured bulbs weaving in and out of rocks and ice, disappearing and then […]
Read more »Via Asia Times, a report on how groundwater input to the Ganges River has declined by 50% during the summer over recent decades, a dwindling?flow that could severely affect the availability of water for irrigation and cause potential declines in food production: A study forecasts that in the absence of interventions, groundwater contribution to Ganga […]
Read more »Via the Global Water Forum, an article on China?s and India?s transboundary river policies: Hydro-hegemons are states which assert power over other riparian states in a shared river basin.? In Asia, both China and India are hydro-hegemons. China is the upstream riparian on many of Asia?s most important international rivers, including the Mekong, Brahmaputra, Sutlej, […]
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