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Hydropower In The Mekong: An Opportunity To Chart A New Course?
December 5th, 2016
Via Third Pole.net, a look at the potential for Laos to rethink its aggressive hydropower plans as new markets and technologies create an opportunity to change course: A report published in September by the Stimson Center, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, challenges prevailing notions about the future of hydropower in the Mekong subregion, an area including Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, […]
Read more »The Trump Effect on U.S.-Mexico Water Talks
November 23rd, 2016
Via Politico, commentary on president-elect Donald Trump’s potential impact on a new water-sharing deal over the dwindling supplies from the Colorado River: Negotiators who’ve worked for years are pressing to finish a new water-sharing deal over the dwindling supplies from the Colorado River before president-elect Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20 — or put at risk […]
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 Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Strategic Implications of China’s Dam Building Spree In Tibet
October 25th, 2016
Via India’s Institute for Defense Studies, interesting commentary on the strategic implications for India of China’s dam building activities in Tibet: Recent reports have pointed to China blocking the Xiabuqu tributary of the Yarlung Zangpo River (Tibetan name for Brahmaputra) for a dam project. The 195-km long Xiabuqu originates at Bainang and joins the Brahmaputra […]
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