Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Hot disputes between nations over cross-border water have lately spouted like geysers. In January, President Donald Trump said he wanted to end agreements with Canada on sharing the Great Lakes. And after months of fraught discussions, he just settled with Mexico on allocations of river flows under a 1940s accord. In recent days, India suspended a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan after an attack in disputed territory; their decades-long agreement was obsolete anyway because of climate change and population changes. And next year, a 30-year pact on South Asia’s other major riparian system, the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin, will expire if not rapidly renegotiated. Are these examples of contention and divergence over fresh water now the norm in the world? ‘Contrary to popular belief,’ stated the Stockholm International Water Institute, ‘water scarcity has so far tended to unleash cooperation rather than conflict.'” (05/02/25)