All posts tagged: water security

‘We will go to war’: Pakistan threatens India as the country faces a water crisis

‘We will go to war’: Pakistan threatens India as the country faces a water crisis

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Pakistan’s defence minister, Khawaja Asif, has threatened war against India over water security after New Delhi said that its decision to keep the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance was “unchanged”. India has been firm on the suspension of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, a consequence of the Pakistan-sponsored terror attack in Pahalgam in April 2025, which claimed 26 lives. (REUTERS/ File) The statement from Asif comes as the Pakistan government faces widespread domestic instability and an internal water crisis that experts attribute to gross mismanagement. Speaking to ARY News on Saturday, Asif declared, “The moment we feel that our national security, and water is part of our national security, is being threatened, we will go to war against India. Definitely.” He further claimed that military action would be considered if Islamabad found evidence that India was acting at an “alarming speed” to disrupt water supplies. India has been firm on the suspension of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, a consequence of the Pakistan-sponsored terror attack in Pahalgam in April 2025, which claimed 26 lives. New …

The long road to a water-secure future in Hyderabad

The long road to a water-secure future in Hyderabad

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Every January, just after the Sankranthi cheer ebbs, residents of the Czech Colony in Sanathnagar, Hyderabad, brace for an annual test, watching their water taps a little more closely. The borewell serving their 40-flat apartment still runs twice a day, but not for long. Its yield starts thinning, and within a month, there is nothing left to draw. What follows is a familiar routine: they must depend on water tankers, repeatedly checking the HMWS&SB app, tracking a slow crawl up the waiting list. That ritual, however, has quietly ended. T. Srinivas, a member of the apartment association, says the turning point came with the construction of an injection borewell. The change was immediate. “Our borewell improved and a few nearby apartments that opted for percolation pits saw a difference too.” He details the consultations that went into the project, the pit collection system, annual rainwater estimates and how the intervention eased everyday life in the building. Experiences such as this are shaping a broader rethink of water use and conservation across Hyderabad. At Kavuri Hills, …

China Loses 26 Percent of Its Glaciers Due to Global Warming, Claims New Study

China Loses 26 Percent of Its Glaciers Due to Global Warming, Claims New Study

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China has reportedly witnessed a significant decline in glacier area over the last six decades. As per a new study published online,  the country has lost nearly 26 percent of its total glacier coverage since the 1960s. The study claims that the lost of such glacier area might be due to the rapid increase in global temperatures around the globe. Official data confirmed that close to 7000 small glaciers have entirely vanished from the landscape. The shrinking of glacier masses has been observed to accelerate over the past few years as warming trends continue to intensify. Glacier Loss Confirmed by Chinese Academy of Sciences According to a study released by the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources under the Chinese Academy of Sciences it was recorded that China’s glacier area had reduced to nearly 46000 square kilometres by 2020. The total number of glaciers was stated to be around 69000 at that time. This marked a steep fall from an earlier figure of approximately 59000 square kilometres reported between 1960 and 1980 when glacier count …