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Water

Asia's New Battleground
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This title is the winner of the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz 2012 Book Award. The battles of yesterday were fought over land. Those of today are over energy. But the battles of tomorrow may be over water. Nowhere is that danger greater than in water-distressed Asia. Water stress is set to become Asia's defining crisis of the twenty-first century, creating obstacles to continued rapid economic growth, stoking interstate tensions over shared resources, exacerbating long-time territorial disputes, and imposing further hardships on the poor. Asia is home to many of the world's great rivers and lakes, but its huge population and exploding economic and agricultural demand for water make it the most water-scarce continent on a per capita basis. Many of Asia's water sources cross national boundaries, and as less and less water is available, international tensions will rise. The potential for conflict is further underscored by China's unrivaled global status as the source of transboundary river flows to the largest number of countries, ranging from India and Vietnam to Russia and Kazakhstan; yet a fast-rising China has declined to enter into water-sharing or cooperative treaties with these states, even as it taps the resources of international rivers. Water: Asia's New Battleground is a pioneering study of Asia's murky water politics and the relationships between fresh water, peace, and security. In this unique and highly readable book, Brahma Chellaney expertly paints a larger picture of water across Asia, highlights the security implications of resource-linked territorial disputes, and proposes real strategies to avoid conflict and more equitably share Asia's water resources.
Introduction 1. Asia: Global Water Crisis Hub 2. Murky Hydropolitics 3. The Tibetan Plateau: The World's Most Unique Water Repository 4. Exploiting the Riparian Advantage: A Key Test Case 5. Managing Intrastate Water Conflicts 6. Mitigating Intercountry Water Disputes or Discord 7. Asia's Challenge: Forestalling Bloodletting over Water AppendixesA: Interstate Freshwater Agreements in Asia since the Start of the Decolonization ProcessB: Web Links to Key Asian Water Treaties Notes About the Author Index
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