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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.