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The Parched Tiger: India Fast Tracks Hydro Projects In Disputed Kashmir
March 15th, 2017
Via Newsweek, a report on recent actions by India to fast track hydropower projects in Kashmir: India has fast-tracked hydropower projects worth $15 billion in Kashmir in recent months, three federal and state officials said, ignoring warnings from Islamabad that power stations on rivers flowing into Pakistan will disrupt water supplies. The swift approval of […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Pakistan’s Water Crisis And The Indus Water Treaty
February 24th, 2017
Via the Eurasia Review, an article on Pakistan’s water crisis and the Indus Water Treaty: It is well known that Pakistan is one of the most “water stressed” countries of the world. Currently its per capita annual water capability is 1017 cubic metres- that is perilously close to a threshold of 1000 cubic metres. Back […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: A Familiar Dispute in the Indus River Valley
January 12th, 2017
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), additional analysis of tensions over the Indus River: For centuries, control of the Indus River Basin’s waters has been a point of contention among the region’s inhabitants. Since 1960, the Indus Waters Treaty has governed use of the region’s water between India and Pakistan. But late in 2016, a flare-up between […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Indus Waters Treaty Continues
January 6th, 2017
Via The Third Pole, a report on how – as the World Bank starts shuttle diplomacy between New Delhi and Islamabad to resolve the latest dispute over the Indus Waters Treaty – officials in both India and Pakistan reiterate their support to the treaty itself: India has asked the World Bank not to rush in […]
Read more »Parched Pakistan
January 2nd, 2017
Via India’s Express, a report on Pakistan’s water crisis: Pakistan has been inching towards a water crisis for decades. In 1951, it was a water-abundant country with an annual per capita availability of around 5,260 cubic meters (m3). By 2013, this declined to as low as 964 m3 per annum. The country is expected to […]
Read more »Are India And Pakistan Set For Water Wars?
December 22nd, 2016
Via the BBC, a look at the Indian-Pakistani tensions over the Indus: India is stepping up efforts to maximise its water use from the western rivers of the Indus basin, senior officials have told the BBC. The move would involve building huge storage facilities and canals. The three rivers flow through Indian-administered Kashmir but most […]
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