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Pakistan And India: Another Water Battle Looming?
May 4th, 2012
Via the Third Pole, an article on how Pakistan is gearing up for a new water fight with India: The never-ending war over water resources between India and Pakistan has taken a new twist. Pakistan has registered its resentment against the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for a decision to grant carbon […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India And Pakistan Move To Avert Water Wars
April 9th, 2012
Via Pakistan’s The International News, a report of Indian and Pakistani support of a new mechanism to avoid water issues. As the article notes: Pakistan and India have agreed in principle of a need to set up an independent office of the Indus Water Commission (IWC) comprising neutral experts from outside the South Asian region […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Pakistan Gears Up For A New Water Fight With India
March 23rd, 2012
Via China Dialogue, a report that Pakistan is gearing up for a new water fight with India, over a dam funded by international efforts to tackle global warming. As the article notes: The never-ending war over water resources between India and Pakistan has taken a new twist. Pakistan has registered its resentment against the United […]
Read more »Thirsty Pakistan: Going With The Flow
February 12th, 2012
Courtesy of The Economist, a detailed look at the water issues troubling Pakistan. As the article notes: “FOR MILLIONS SUFFERING the misery of the past two years’ floods it must seem the cruellest of jokes, but Pakistan is one of the world’s most arid countries. Average annual rainfall is less than 240mm, and the total […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Water Troubles
January 24th, 2012
Via Celsias, a look at Pakistan’s water troubles: Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent with a population in 2011 of  3,879,000,000 (3.8 billion). It covers 8.6% of the Earth’s total surface area (or 29.9% of its land area) and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world’s current human […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Dam Indus-trialization Program
January 16th, 2012
Via Pakistan’s The News, a report that India has prepared a master plan to construct nine more large dams in Laddakh region in occupied Kashmir in addition to Nimoo-Bazgo and Chuttak hydropower projects on the Indus River. These 9 dams will generate 1055 MW of electricity.  As the article notes: “…India is already set to […]
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