WaterSISWEB - Global water withdrawal and consumption
Posted on 05/19/2012 2:33:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Its three great basins -- the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra -- are the most densely populated area in the world. The Ganges alone supports half a billion people.
Seventy per cent of South Asia's 1.5 billion people live in farming families, and depend on the water of those basins for their survival. That number grows by 25 million every year.
For generations the rivers have watered the bread basket of the Punjab, the cotton plants and fruit trees of the Sindh, and the rice paddies of Bangladesh, and grown this region faster than anywhere else.
But South Asia's water supply is unpredictable, and increasingly unmanageable. Lashed annually by monsoons, and regularly by devastating floods, between, there are severe and prolonged droughts across the region.
Even when the rain falls in moderation, there is little infrastructure to preserve it for leaner times. Across all three basins, there is less water, and ever more people.
The issue of water in this part of the world is back in the spotlight with a case before the Permanent Court of Arbitration this week between Pakistan and India.
Pakistan claims a new hydroelectric plant India is building on the Kishanganga River (known as the Neelum River in Pakistan) in Kashmir will rob it of water that rightfully belongs to it.
This is the political reality of this water-short century.
(Excerpt) Read more at sananews.net ...
WaterSISWEB - Global water withdrawal and consumption
The story has the uaual litany about how we’re running out of fresh water, blah blah blah.
Thanks SunkenCiv. Very interesting chart.
Anything that angers the Pakirs is fine by me.
Water woes.
So am I still a greedy water baron if I refuse to sell the great lakes for any amount of money?
Easy solution for that one. Build more nuclear power plants and use them for desalinization as well as hydrogen production.
:’) Isn’t that like selling the Brooklyn Bridge or the Eiffel Tower?
My pleasure.
Yeah the great lakes are far more valuable to me right where they are.
Not to worry, global warming will free up a lot of H2O from the glaciers and polar icecaps.
Should that headline read, “India’s Dam Plan . . . ,” or “India’s Damn Plan . . .?”
It looks to me like the issue isn’t so much the dam per se, but the wholesale diversion of water from the Kishanganga watershed to an entirely different watershed that does not deliver the water to the downstream users on the Kishanganga., in India or Pakistan.
I don’t cate what jurisdiction such a think were to take place; without the consent of the downstream water users, this is outright theft.
Theft is fine. Its simple equation. Pakistan pumps more terrorists IN....India pumps more water OUT. Without water, it would be interesting to see how many terrorists Pakistan can produce.
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