... security. The second step is to find common ground for exchanging experience and scaling up national practices by identifying opportunities within an inter-state and, in particular, a multilateral framework. In terms of economic and social cooperation, water and energy security and stable state development in the region could prove to be this very common ground. These are the factors that will allow Moscow and Beijing, together with the region’s countries, to use their experiences and apply pre-emptive ...
On July 30, 2021, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) together with the Pathfinder Foundation (Sri Lanka) and Asian Confluence (India) hosted a trilateral expert dialogue titled “Impact of Climate Change on Marine and Fresh Water Resources and Combating Water Pollution”
On July 30, 2021, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) together with the Pathfinder Foundation (Sri Lanka) and Asian Confluence (India) hosted a trilateral expert dialogue titled “Impact ...
... consequences ensue, whose negative effects span through many generations. A case in point is the construction of dams on the Mekong River.
The role that the Mekong plays in continental Southeast Asia can hardly be exaggerated. The mighty river is the source of water and sustenance for ten million people across six nations as well as a major traffic artery, capable of providing electrical energy for the needs of the industry.
As a matter of fact, the prosperity of Cambodia is largely provided by the Mekong River ...
... Vladimir Putin taking part in the Leaders’ Summit on Climate 2021 and sustainable development goals finding their place in his annual Federal Assembly address and the new National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation.
Protecting marine and fresh water resources as well as biodiversity is a key global interest. Russia shares it with South Asian countries, including India and Sri Lanka, notwithstanding geographic and socioeconomic differences that determine specific problems and priorities most ...
... understand, at the dawn of geopolitical reasoning, if the earth is the space on which we live and on which we mainly do politics, the sea as an element of delimitation and as a real technical tool, is a very important factor [
9
]. Carlo Jean writes:
«Water can be used as a defense or attack tool; in fact, not only the seas and oceans, but also rivers and lakes can constitute both ways of communication and strategic penetration, and protective obstacles.
[...] Water is a determining element in geopolitics,...
... the increased industrial and demographic pressures. A World Health Organization survey of 1,600 large cities in the G20 found that 13 out the 20 most polluted places are located in India, with Delhi in the lead
[3]
.
The quantity and quality of fresh water pose more profound problems
[4]
.
As of 2010, water intake amounted to 34 percent of renewable water reserves
, suggesting that an internationally recognized level of water stress, i.e. a shortage of water for human and environmental needs
[5]
...
Dynamics and Trends in Water Consumption
The population of the Arabian monarchies is expected to reach
59 million by 2025 and 72 million by 2050. As a result, water seems to be becoming even more important as a strategic resource than hydrocarbons.
One ton of fresh water ...
What will happen to water management in one hundred years?
The words of Ismail Serageldin, founder of the
Global Water Partnership
, who once said that “
if the wars of this century were fought over oil, the wars of the next century will be fought over water
”,...
There are three legislative mechanisms of water resources regulation in Central Asia. First, there is an international law - documents made by Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of Central Asia[1], declarations made by all Central Asian states and bilateral agreements on use of particular ...
