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Transboundary Water Governance – Takeaways from 2015 World Water Week

September 10, 2015 Tahira Syed
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This year marked the 25th anniversary of the World Water Week organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) in Sweden. The event lived up to its past reputation as a key event for gathering water practitioners, scientists, global experts, financiers, diplomats and politicians from around the world. From transboundary water perspective, this year also saw [...]
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Reframing Water Challenges

July 27, 2015 Amanda Repella
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Shafik Islam was recently featured in The Daily Star (Bangladesh) discussing the recent renewed interest in India’s ambitious river linking project, which seeks to build extensive and costly interbasin transfer infrastructure to provide additional water to regions that need it most. This project was envisioned and planning was initiated more than 30 years ago, but [...]
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A new future for the Himalayan rivers

June 18, 2015 Shafiqul Islam
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The question of whether and how to harness rivers for irrigation, hydropower generation, urban development and sustainability of ecosystems continues to be an issue of great concern, conflict, and cooperation for this region. While pessimistic speculation on the endemic nature of water stress within and between countries in South Asia occurs commonly, there is a [...]
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Coexisting Conflict and Cooperation: a different way of describing transboundary waters

March 27, 2015 Tahira Syed
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In referring to transboundary waters – the idea of riparian relations is often seen as a complex set of actions that derive the conflictive and cooperative nature of transboundary water management issues. It may be good advice to move away from stringent theories and concepts of water resources management and instead look at the broader [...]
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Global Risk of Water: Where is the Disconnect Between Rankings?

December 8, 2014 Molly E. Greer
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risk 2014 Report ranks water crises as the third greatest global economic risk, just after fiscal crises in key economies and employment rate challenges; and water related risks of extreme weather events (#6) and food crises (#8) rank in the top ten. However, Lloyd’s Risk Index (LRI) ranks water scarcity [...]
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Trust, not water, has been scarce for a long time: a conversation with Christine Buesser about Water in Gaza

October 23, 2014 Amanda Repella
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Chrisine Buesser left Switzerland more than 15 years ago to initially pursue a degree in Business Administration at Babson College. From there, she worked as an investment banker in New York City for three years before joining Médecins Sans Frontières‎ (MSF/ Doctors Without Borders) in 2007. Since then, she has lead MSF’s projects and missions [...]
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Mis-measurment, Water Scarcity, and Access to Water: Why Merely Meeting the Millennium Development Goal of Access to Safe Drinking Water Doesn’t Add Up

April 22, 2014 Shafiqul Islam and Adil Najam
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In 2010, the United Nations proclaimed that the world met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of people without access to improved sources of water, five years ahead of schedule. They estimated that, as of 2011, 768 million people did not have improved sources for drinking water. With this metric, we had a [...]
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Water Diplomacy for South Asia: Conceptualization of Ecological Water Engineering

March 25, 2014 Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
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This post is a follow up to The Case for Water Diplomacy for South Asia (Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin). The initial post describes the unique hydrology and water security challenges for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Basin shared by Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar and Nepal. The problem of water security in South Asia is rooted more in spatial and temporal [...]
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The Case for Water Diplomacy for South Asia (Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin)

March 25, 2014 Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
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With a large and growing population, high poverty rates, and a need to ensure food security, water is highly politicized. The diverse opinions and resulting disputes between South Asian countries regarding shared waters has resulted in few strategies for basin level cooperation in the face of changing requirements and variable water quantities. In addition to [...]
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Hydropolitics of the Nile, the 18th Camel and Water Diplomacy

February 7, 2014 Shafiqul Islam
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(From the Cairo Airport Lounge) Returning to Boston from Nazareth, Ethiopia after leading an intensive two-day workshop organized by ENTRO/ENSAP. The theme was Water Diplomacy Framework : from theory to practice with a focus on transboundary water issues. Over sixty water professionals, decision makers, diplomats, and non-governmental actors from the four Eastern Nile countries (Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, and South [...]
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