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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 »The Thirsty Dragon: Chinese Dam Building Tests Southeast Asian Resilience
March 21st, 2012
Courtesy of HydroLogic, a look at how China’s hydropower development activities on the Mekong and Salween Rivers are a clear illustration of the country’s potentially destabilizing strategy, with both diplomatic and environmental impacts, in Southeast Asia. As the article notes: “…These waterways, along with the Yangtze River (one of China’s domestic targets for intensive development), […]
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 […]
Read more »The Nile: Shifting Balance of Powers
December 22nd, 2011
Via Revolve, a look at the water security in the Nile Basin and how it can no longer be divorced from increasingly urgent issues of food security and energy supply. As the article notes: “…In the long-running “water wars†debate the Nile has often been quoted as an example of a river basin where armed […]
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