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The Thirsty Dragon: Yangtze Headwaters Under Threat
September 19th, 2016
Via China Water Risk, a sobering look at the threat faced by the Yangtze headwaters where models show as much as 67% of China’s glacier volume may disappear by 2100: The glaciers of the “Yangtze River Source Region” (YRSR) are in the “most sensitive area to global warming” atop the Tibetan Plateau, according to a study led by the Institute […]
Read more »Will Inland Navigation Positively Shift South Asia’s Water Debate?
September 12th, 2016
Via Spotlight Nepal, a look at the possibility that if Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Arunachal, Meghalaya, Mizoram or Uttarakhand can see that containers from Europe or Japan can come to their doorsteps at Chatra or Chisapani and similar places elsewhere – and they could benefit from reduction in the cost of their goods – there would be […]
Read more »Indus Basin Groundwater Depletion: Unsteady Footings for India-Pakistan Relations
September 1st, 2016
Via Future Directions International, a report on growing tensions in the Indus Basin: Background In the discourse between India and Pakistan the issue of water sharing has gained prominence this year with the move by Pakistan to take India to The Hague. This was an issue over the damming of the rivers feeding Pakistan, namely […]
Read more »Laos’ Thirst For Mekong River Dams Imperils Region’s Fishing and Farming
August 16th, 2016
Courtesy of the Washington Post, a look at Laos’ desire for more Mekong River dams impacts its regional neighbors: Dismissing its neighbors’ pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia’s poorest people. The site of the Don Sahong dam, less than 2 kilometers (1 […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India and Pakistan Water Tensions Escalate to The Hague
August 11th, 2016
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a detailed look at how hydropower projects are sparking discord in the Indus River basin, but that real water management challenges go deeper: Officials in Pakistan are poised to take their clash with India over hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir to the highest levels of international arbitration. It marks […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Water Issues Spark Furore In Jammu & Kashmir Assembly
June 28th, 2016
Via Third Pole.net, commentary on water issues in Jammu & Kashmir from the Indus Waters Treaty to the ownership of major hydropower projects: The Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project is one of the few owned by the J&K State Power Development Corporation Ltd. In 2011 Taj Mohi-u-Din, then the minister of irrigation in the state of […]
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