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India Relaxes Stance On Indus Water Dispute
December 16th, 2016
Via The Hindu, a report on how officials in India recently showed willingness to participate in talks with Pakistan over disputed hydroelectric projects in the Indus River Basin, despite earlier objections this month: Signalling a step back from tensions in the past month over the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan, India said there was “no reason” the two […]
Read more »World Bank Drawn Into Indus Waters Treaty Dispute
November 13th, 2016
Via Third Pole.net, a report on two separate processes by India and Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty that threaten to drag the World Bank into the dispute, and threaten to undermine the treaty: India has accused the World Bank of following procedures not in consonance with the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT). The IWT governs […]
Read more »Water Conflicts Looming Between South Asian Nuclear Powers Pose Global Threat
October 29th, 2016
Via the United Nations University’s Institute for Water, Environment, and Health, a review of a new book looking at the looming impact of water conflict in South Asia and the potential for Indus Basin development if India, Pakistan, China, and Afghanistan work together: The current political rhetoric between India and Pakistan underlines the risk of […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Would India Really Abrogate the Indus Waters Treaty?
October 27th, 2016
Via Global Risk Insights, commentary on the escalating India-Pakistan tensions surrounding Kashmir, in which New Delhi has not ruled out the possibility that it will abrogate the longstanding Indus Waters Treaty: Recent months have witnessed a dramatic escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan in relation to events in the Kashmir region. The historic standoff […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India and Pakistan’s Struggle Over Water
October 21st, 2016
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting interview / commentary on the tensions heating up between India and Pakistan over key water sources in Kashmir, with India threatening to revoke the nearly 60-year-old Indus Water Treaty: Cody Pope for Circle of Blue: Good morning, and welcome to our first installment of Circle of Blue’s Hotspots […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Modi Lays Groundwork For Water War In Battle With Rival Pakistan
October 20th, 2016
Via Bloomberg, a look at recent water tensions between India and Pakistan: Himalayan rivers have become the new flash point in the bitter India-Pakistan conflict, providing the latest diplomatic weapon in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to isolate Islamabad. With India still reeling from an attack in Kashmir that killed 19 soldiers, New Delhi is looking to […]
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