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The Thirsty Dragon And Parched Tiger: Climate Change Could Lead To China-India Water Conflict
June 15th, 2014
Via RTCC, some commentary on how decline in water flow from Tibetan Plateau likely to exacerbate tensions in region over coming decades: Melting Himalayan glaciers and erratic rainfall could exacerbate tensions between central Asian countries later this century, warn defence analysts in a new report.They say droughts or extreme rains linked to climate change could […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon And Parched Tiger: Glacial Melt And Future Water Security In The Tibetan Plateau Region:
May 29th, 2014
Via Future Directions International, a detailed look at the impact that climate change may have upon glacial melt and water security in the Tibetan Plateau: Key Points Climate change will have severe impacts on the Asian monsoon and the Himalayan glaciers. Increased glacial melting in the Himalayas, accompanied by increasingly unpredictable rainfall patterns, will have […]
Read more »Does Himalayan Hydro Have The Power To Bring Water Co-operation?
December 11th, 2013
Via Future Directions International, an interesting look at how an alignment of interests is a necessary but not sufficient condition for meaningful co-operation between states over shared hydro resources. Other factors, including domestic cohesion, levels of trust and the effects of power asymmetry all contribute to the balance of conflict and co-operation. Such considerations will […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Mining In Tibet Threatens Asia’s Rivers
October 12th, 2013
Via the Third Pole, a look at the impact of mining in Tibet: In his new book, Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World, Gabriel Lafitte analyses the extent and scale of China’s mineral exploitation in Tibet. Here he talks to The Third Pole about the global environmental significance of […]
Read more »The Brahmaputra: Water Hotspot In Himalayan Asia
January 3rd, 2013
Via the Global Water Forum, an interesting article on the Brahmaputra: Analysts around the world increasingly have their eyes on the Brahmaputra River, a transboundary watercourse with headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau of the Himalayan mountain range. The three riparian states sharing the Brahmaputra – China, India, and Bangladesh – are the world’s first, second, […]
Read more »Global Water Crisis…From The First Himalayan Glacial Trickle
December 2nd, 2012
Via Yahoo, an interesting article on one reporter’s views of the water stress from the effects of climate change high in the Himalayas where India and Pakistan’s great rivers start to Haiti’s fresh-water pollution: In the Nepalese Himalayas in 2009, I trekked into the Langtang Valley, just short of the Tibetan border, and to a […]
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