Destabilising Nature of Internal Water Wars

Aug 28, 2018 | Scott Moore
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Nearly 15 years ago, the former head of India’s Central Water Commission warned that “hydro-politics is threatening the very fabric of federalism” in the world’s second most populous country. Virtually all the subcontinent’s major rivers, including the Indus, the Ganges, and the Brahmaputra, are the subject of some level of contention. But while these international trans-boundary waterways receive most of the attention, it is India’s internal water wars that may well be most significant for its future.