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No Water, No Growth: Rising River Risks Threaten Half The Total GDP of 16 Asian Countries
October 28th, 2025
Via China Water Risk, a look at a new report that reveals that nearly 2bn people and US$10.3trn worth of GDP as well as 800GW+ of power assets across Asia’s 10 “mother” rivers are at risk from escalating climate risks and deepening water stress: A new report “No Water, No Growth 2 – Rising “mother” […]
Read more »Indus Waters Treaty: From Cooperative Vision to Calculated Confrontation
September 4th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at how – instead of believing that strategic patience would breed stability – the Modi government’s strategic escalation has made Indus water flows a tool of coercive diplomacy: The Indus Waters Treaty, once described as a treaty that withstood three wars between India and Pakistan, is receiving much flak after […]
Read more »Weaponizing Water in South Asia
August 30th, 2025
Via Dawn, commentary on Pakistan’s floods and the concerns that India is weaponizing water in the ongoing clash between the two nations: AS the raging floodwaters make their way through Punjab towards Sindh, the nation must confront the fact that other than heavy monsoon rainfall and climate change, India’s apparent weaponisation of water has also […]
Read more »The Indus Treaty Verdict: When Water Outlasts War
July 4th, 2025
Via the Lowy Institute, a look at how a Hague ruling against India’s treaty “abeyance” might stop a precedent that could spread from China to Bangladesh: For more than 60 years, the Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan has stood as one of the few enduring triumphs of postcolonial diplomacy – surviving wars, diplomatic breakdowns, and […]
Read more »India’s Unilateral Halt To Water Treaty: 4 Options Pakistan Can Take
June 29th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, commentary on options that Pakistan can take to take on India’s unilateral decision to halt the Indus Water Treaty: After military clashes between India and Pakistan broke out earlier this month — at more than three days’ duration, making them the most inflamed between the two countries in decades — a ceasefire was agreed on May 10. […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India “Will Never Restore Indus Water Treaty”
June 21st, 2025
Via The Frontier Post, a report that India has adopted a very hard line about restoring the Indus water treaty with Pakistan: India will never restore the Indus Waters Treaty with Islamabad, and the water flowing to Pakistan will be diverted for internal use, Home Minister Amit Shah said in an interview with Times of […]
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