The Ganges River holds immense importance for both Bangladesh and India, providing water for agriculture, livelihoods, and ...
The renewed agreement should include provisions for arbitration or mediation to address potential conflicts ... such as river interlinking, should be subjected to prior consultation and impact ...
Half the world's population resides within 310 transboundary lake and river basins shared among 151 riparian nations. Approximately 60% of these basins lack cooperative frameworks to share water ...
This asymmetry has allowed India to unilaterally implement projects like the Farakka Barrage on the Ganges River, which diverts water to Kolkata but reduces its flow into Bangladesh. The Farakka ...
Water, or lack thereof ... is in what we call an international river basin and many of the early disputes — disputes in the Middle East between Israel and Lebanon, or Israel and Jordan, or Israel and ...
NRCC—a statutory body mandated by the government to help protect the country’s 770 rivers and other water bodies from illegal ... itself translates to “old Ganges,” indicating its historical ...
President Donald Trump’s intrusion into California’s long-running conflict over water management — essentially favoring farmers over wildlife habitat — has drawn massive media and ...
The conflict over the Colorado River in many ways resembles California’s internal conflict, including an uncertainty over whether governments can overturn or ignore water rights stretching back ...
In Tariq Karim’s new book The Tortuous Evolution of South Asian Regional Cooperation: Bangladesh’s Travails for Sub-Regional ...