Why the time for a China-India water treaty is now
By Geoff Hiscock, Special to CNN
“China and India need to reach agreement on how they will manage water from one of the world’s great rivers — the Yarlung-Zangbo-Brahmaputra — before it becomes another serious impediment to relations between the two Asian heavyweights.”
DID YOU KNOW:
“Almost half the world’s population — the 3.5 billion people living in Central, South and East Asia — relies on water from the great rivers that rise in the Himalayas, the Tibetan plateau, and the Tibetan ethnic areas of China.”
DID YOU KNOW:
“China is working on its massive $60 billion South-North Water Diversion Project that involves the country’s two most important rivers — the Yangzi and the Yellow — plus numerous tributaries, canals and other rivers such as the Huai and Hai. It is one of the biggest civil engineering projects conceived anywhere in the world.”
Wars over oil - wars over water?
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