Water Conflicts News Today

This article delves into the nuanced landscape of transboundary water governance, with a keen focus on the regulatory measures implemented in the Lake Chad and Congo Basins.

Water Conflicts and Resistance: Issues and Challenges in South Asia edited by Venkatesh Dutta, New Delhi: Routledge India, South Asia Edition, 2022; pp xxviii + 285, `1,495.

Leave India-Pakistan and Russia-Ukraine aside, countries across the world have joined hands to prevent water conflicts. A Strategic Foresight Group report concludes that countries engaged in active water cooperation do not go to war for any reason whatsoever. Attacks on infrastructure and terrorism are primary threats to disturbing ‘blue peace.

When the late Libyan King Idris was told that oil was discovered in his desert kingdom, he sighed: "I wish you told me you discovered water. Water makes people work; oil makes them dream."

Zhang Hongzhou is Research Fellow at the China Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

India’s presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20) comes at a critical juncture; even as the  pandemic wanes, geopolitical tensions between the US and China

Citing reasons such as felling of 30,000 trees, location in seismic zone, unscientific studies, and evidence of tiger presence in and around the project area, a group of activists

Citing reasons such as felling of 30,000 trees, location in seismic zone, unscientific studies, and evidence of tiger presence in and around the project area, a group of activists on Thursday demanded reconsideration of the proposed Etalin hydroelectric project (HEP) in Dibang basin of Arunachal Pradesh.

Citing reasons such as felling of 30,000 trees, location in seismic zone, unscientific studies, and evidence of tiger presence in and around the project area, a group of activists on Thursday demanded reconsideration of the proposed Etalin ...

Two days after former Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit admitted that Pakistan has been wasting water that it received under the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), and on a day when India raised a stern objection to mention of Jammu & ...