Comments on: India and Pakistan: watch out for water fights

By: tehseenhasan

tehseenhasan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:39:40 +0000

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By: tycobb54

tycobb54 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:15:35 +0000

It still comes down to the fact that we are paying people not to grow food when there could be wars we’re going to have to go in and pick sides on with American troops and all the casualties that ensue. That plus the fact that we are paying people not to grow food when half the people in the world ARE STARVING…It’s difficult to do that and take the moral high ground. People need food provided for them when there are droughts or when they have no money to buy food, in America and abroad, and to pay people NOT to grow food is sacreligeous!!! It’s taking from the poor and giving to the rich, a reverse robin hood mentality. Why doesn’t anyone like us? Water rights will obviously cause friction between neighboring countries as clean water supplies go down and populations increase.

By: RAJ

RAJ — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:48:55 +0000

I totally agree wid you MR Shantanu. Pakis garantee our Energy we garuntee waters to there crops wao now pakis should we happy that India is treating fair to them. And also give us Access to Afganistan and central Asia. What do you say PAKIS

By: RAJ

RAJ — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:50:41 +0000

Why we are bonded to a treaty that only makes us weak,I think India’s leadership is Authorityless and cant take things on hands. Pakistan a chunk of land chopped out of India to make heaven of Home less Indian muslim .Ever since they got the chunk of land they want more more and more , they need kashmir, raises the issues of Junagarh and Hydrabad and annexation of Bangladesh as well and has started a proxy war on Kashmir , Punjab and North East using Bangladesh and using the Network of Nepal, since nepal share an open Border with India. We should not give waters to these people and divert it to Rajasthan which has a Dessert region and aslo we need to keep a close look on the Dam construted on the Chinese Rivers flowing to india. Interconnecting Rivers would bring a new revolution in India.We dont want any conflict in future but if required then we can use River water as a MAJOR weapon and and bring them to knees.That what the next fate of Pakistan is, if it conflicts with India.

May God give some mind to Pakistan.

By: Muhammad afzal

Muhammad afzal — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:41:04 +0000

Mr. Hasan M. Mirza
even in india there is not a same language and culture. if you like to see please check indian punjab and Kerala states.

By: Hasan M. Mirza

Hasan M. Mirza — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:27:40 +0000

Water will certainly become a bigger irritant than Kashmir between India and Pakistan in the future as can be predicted by the present attitude of India. India is waffling on Kashmir and making no effort to make progress on peace talks especially given the political turmoil in Pakistan. Even on other less difficult disputed matters India has shown no flexibility. Perhaps the constant refrain by the Western media of India becoming the next economic powerhouse (a rickety infrastructure notwithstanding) seem to have made India too arrogant. Forget IPI pipeline, free trade and any talk of an artificial border separating two people belonging to the same culture and speaking the same language. There is too much distrust on both sides to make war on water a distinct possibility in the near future.

Hasan M. Mirza

By: Michael Canes

Michael Canes — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:01:58 +0000

I saw this video on GreenEnergyTV.com about Desalianation in Algeria and how they convert salt Water to drinking water. It is interesting to see what GE is working on.

Here is a link to the video:
http://greenenergytv.com/Watch.aspx?5333 14020

By: Shantanu Chatterjee

Shantanu Chatterjee — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:34:09 +0000

The IWT basically asks India to behave itself regardless of what Pakistan does since it is Indian territory on which the waters originate.Not sure if pakistan would behave as well if the boot was on the other foot.

My suggestion is to link this to the IPI pipeline some pak general gets smarty ideas to use IPI as leverage and the sluice gates fall on our side of the border.Seems fair,don’t you think?Our energy supplies guarenteed by your water supplies and vice versa.

By: Nasser Javed

Nasser Javed — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:06:09 +0000

If we do end up solving Kashmir, as it may perhaps seem likely, I think other issues will probably follow resolution as well. As far as war is concerned, we’ve fought our last war decades ago. The best peace dividend to date, were the 1998 blasts on both sides, hate to say it. If it was India’s vision to end wars when they 1st launched this program in the Sub-Continent, decades ago, then accolades are due for such ‘fore sightedness’, if that. My fear is that it takes 2 to tango, and thus far it’s only one side, for the most part, that has given – and given. VALUABLE time has been lost while Musharraf had enhanced controls at his disposal. Though diminishing, it is still not too late to finish what was started. Our Indian friends, you may well have to wait into oblivion for the next man with such courage to surface. For the sake of our destitute masses, wake up, I beseach you, wake up. Tomorrow maybe too late.

By: anup roy

anup roy — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:25:36 +0000

why only india pakistan? you think all the other countries will remain immune to a water crisis? sooner or later, this is going to happen. everybody will meet a not-so watery end.