MAP OF THE DAY: The World Water Crisis. 2011-03-22T13:22:00Z Share. Facebook Email X ... Through the Middle East and parts of America and Asia, water is a physical scarcity.

Asia’s water map changed fundamentally after the communists took power in China in 1949. It wasn’t geography but guns that established China’s chokehold on almost every major transnational ...

Future site of the Xayaburi Dam in Laos. (International Rivers/Flickr) Brahma Chellaney, a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and one of India's leading strategic thinkers and ...

China dominates Asia’s water map, owing to its annexation of ethnic-minority homelands, such as the water-rich Tibetan Plateau and Xinjiang.

Asia water, energy supplies at risk as climate woes mount. By David Stanway. May 25, 2023 12:06 PM UTC Updated May 26, 2023 A man draws water with a pump on a dried-up reservoir ...

Through this report, the Asia Society’s Leadership Group on Water Security aims to raise awareness of the importance of water as a means of security at multiple levels in Asia. We take as our ...

* 1 in 5 Asians lack access to safe drinking water * Problem worsened by population growth, climate change (Adds economist comment) By Claudia Parsons NEW YORK, April 17 (Reuters) - Asia may see ...

Multiple factors determine how much water is and will be available in the river basins of Asia. To expose hotspots and help adaptation, these factors must be assessed together at the basin level.

As Central Asia suffers the effects of global climate change, seeing less rainfall each year, the water shortage in the region is generating progressively greater attention -- and greater tensions ...

A man draws water with a pump on a dried-up reservoir amid hot temperatures, while many regions from southwest to east of the country along the Yangtze river have been experiencing weeks of record ...

Asia water, energy supplies at risk as climate woes mount, ... The basins of the 10 major rivers that flow from the Hindu Kush Himalayan water towers generate US$4.3 trillion ...