Kenneth Pomeranz: The Great Himalayan Watershed. New Left Review 58, July-August 2009 Agrarian Crisis, Mega-Dams and the Environment Since we tend to take water for granted, it is almost always a bad sign when it is in the news; and lately there has been all too much water-related news from some of Asia’s most populous nations.
The stories have ranged from the distressingly familiar—suicides of drought-hit Indian farmers—to the surprising: evidence that pressure from water in the reservoir behind the new Zipingpu dam may have triggered the massive Sichuan earthquake in May 2008, for example. Meanwhile glaciers, which almost never used to make the news, are now generating plenty of worrisome headlines. Click here to open a larger version of this picture in a new window.
Nepal. South Asia - curators... Bangladesh. India. Pakistan.