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The Parched Tiger: The Ganges Water Crisis
June 17th, 2015
Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting OpEd examining the plight of India’s Ganges river: In April, to offset a prolonged drought in California, Governor Jerry Brown introduced water restrictions for the state’s 39 million residents. Now imagine a water crisis like this affecting some 200 million people in an area smaller than California. […]
Read more »Arguing Over The Ganges
January 16th, 2010
Via Bangladesh’s New Nation, an article on the sharing of rivers between India and Bangladesh. As the report notes: “…Bangladesh was deprived of about 21 thousand cusecs of water during the 1-10 January period this year. Under the provisions of the 1996 Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, Bangladesh was supposed to get some 68 thousand cusecs […]
Read more »India: Dying of Thirst
September 14th, 2009
Via The Toronto Star, a detailed review of India’s water woes and a particularly pessimistic prediction on what may arise as the situation grows even more dire in the years ahead, namely: “…In a decade, India could look like Darfur,” says Vandana Shiva, a nuclear physicist who has become a well-known water activist based in […]
Read more »India & China: Cooperating Over Tibetan Glaciers
August 5th, 2009
Via Qatar’s The Peninsula, a report that India and China are engaged in talks to monitor the glaciers in the Himalayas, a strategic border region, and plans to collaborate in climate change negotiations. As the article notes: “…We are talking to the Chinese about monitoring the Himalayan glaciers,†Minister for State for Environment and Forests […]
Read more »Water: A Determining Factor in Future Regional Conflicts in South Asia
June 27th, 2008
Via The Asia Sentinel, an insightful look at how the decades-old competition for water complicates the already-bitter relationship between India and her neighbors. As the article notes: “…Water is destined to be a determining factor in the regional conflicts of South Asia in the years to come, particularly between India and Pakistan. Unquestionably one of […]
Read more »Water & Politics in Bangladesh’s “Waterworld”
January 21st, 2008
An excellent article by Robert Kaplan in the January/February ’08 edition of The Atlantic Monthly, examining the catastrophic threats that global warming & climate change hold for Bangladesh, a nation already with too little land for its 150 million people. While the majority of the report focuses on the massive impacts that rising sea levels […]
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