IMU, Taliban Threaten Turkmen, Uzbek Water Resource
May 18th, 2013
Via Central Asia Online, an interesting report on Central Asian water tension: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) militants are menacing an Afghan water resource valuable to Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the Faryab Province police chief told Deutsche Welle (DW) in an interview published May 9. The militants in late April attacked three districts in Faryab Province, [...]
Read more »Central Asian Countries Assess Impacts Of Rogun Hydropower Project
February 18th, 2013
Via OOSKA News, a report on some new impact assessment studies for Tajikistan’s proposed Rogun Hydropower Project: Experts from throughout Central Asia gathered in Almaty, Kazakhstan last week to discuss the findings of impact assessment studies for Tajikistan’s proposed Rogun Hydropower Project. The studies on the Rogun project are being conducted under the auspices and [...]
Read more »Sharing Central Asia’s Waters: The Case Of Afghanistan
January 20th, 2013
Via the International Water Law Project, a look at Afghanistan’s regional water issues: Afghanistan has four major river basins. All are international watercourses as that term is defined in the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of Non-navigable Uses of International Watercourses. When looking at the waters in Afghanistan the regional history cannot be ignored [...]
Read more »Regional Implications Of The Indus Basin Water Tension
January 15th, 2013
Via Pakistan’s Express Tribune, an interesting report on “Pakistan’s stance is simply that it just doesn’t trust India regarding the water issue,” said Feisal Naqvi. He was speaking about the Indus Water Treaty, signed in 1960, at a roundtable, Indus Water Treaty, Trans-boundary Water Issues and Prospects of Peace in South Asia, at the Forman [...]
Read more »What Iran And Pakistan Want From Afghans: Water
December 2nd, 2012
Courtesy of Time Magazine, a look at the bubbling water tensions in Central Asia: The Kunar River snakes around the U.S. Forward Operating Base Bostick on Sept. 1, 2011 as seen from Observation Post Mustang in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. With a vast, empty desert as a backdrop, the militants recorded the execution of Khan Wali [...]
Read more »Afghanistan’s Water Challenges
November 13th, 2012
Via a LinkedIn discussion, some commentary by a World Bank official on the water challenges facing Afghanistan: With war and neglect, Afghans face water shortage. “Water is said to be politics and war — and the source of future wars. We are not the only ones who will see our population grow,” Afghanistan needs billions [...]
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