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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 […]
Read more »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 »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 […]
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