PDA

View Full Version : The next war will be over water and not oil.......



Ponce
5th April 2012, 08:42 AM
Well, it looks like the old fart attention getter of Ponce was rignt "once" again..... but of course you don't hear much about the ones betweein CA and OR......or in Las Vegas and also in FL.......interestin that the news came from "Oil Price"......by the way, a nuclear power plant uses 1.5 million gallons of water PER MINUTE to cool them down, is ok when they are by the ocean but what about the ones inland?

Only post of the day......good morning to one and all.
===============================================

http://www.phantomreport.com/pakistan-and-india-to-go-to-war-over-water#more-9735

Pakistan and India to go to War over Water?
April 4, 2012 Posted by Phantom Report

Source: OilPrice

A peaceful and stable Pakistan is integral to western efforts to pacify Afghanistan, but Islamabad’s obsessions with its giant eastern neighbor may render such issues moot.
Since partition in 1947, Pakistan and India have fought four armed conflicts, in 1947, 1965, 1971 (which led to the establishment of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan) and the 1999 Kargil clash.

With the exception of the 1971 conflict, which involved rising tensions in East Pakistan, the others have all involved issues arising from control of Kashmir.

But now a rising new element of discord threatens to precipitate a new armed clash between southern Asia’s two nuclear powers – water.

Lahore’s “The Nation’ newspaper on Sunday published an editorial entitled, “War with India inevitable: Nizami,” the newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief and Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust Chairman, Majid Nizami, asked his fellow citizens to prepare for a war with India over water issues. Nizami told those attending the “Pakistan-India relations; Our rulers- new wishes” session at Aiwan-e-Karkunan Tehrik-e-Pakistan, which he chaired, “Indian hostilities and conspiracies against the country will never end until she is taught a lesson.”

While The Nation is a conservative daily, part of the Nawa-i-Waqt publishing group, with a circulation of roughly 20,000, it has a website, and what’s more, close ties to Pakistan’s highest military circles, so Nizami’s comments should hardly be rejected out of hand.

Furthermore, Niazmi’s audience included some high ranking Pakistani officials, including Nazaria-i-Pakistan Vice Chairman Dr Rafique Ahmed; Pakistan Movement Workers-Trust Chairman, retired Colonel Jamshed Ahmed Tareen; former Foreign Secretary Shamshad Ahmed Khan; Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan Secretary General Qari Zawar Bahadur; retired Air Marshall Khurished Anwar Mirza; retired Brigadier Hamid Saeed Akhtar and Jamaat-e-Islami Lahore Chief Ameer-ul-Azeem, among others.

At issue are Pakistan’s concerns over India’s ongoing construction of two hydroelectric dams on the upper reaches of the Indus River. Islamabad is concerned that the 45 megawatt, 190-foot tall Nimoo-Bazgo concrete dam 44 megawatt Chutak hydroelectric power project will reduce the Indus River’s flow towards Pakistan, as they are capable of storing up to 4.23 billion cubic feet of water, violating the terms of the bilateral 1960 Indus Water Treaty. The Indus, which begins in Indian-controlled Kashmir, is crucial to both India and Pakistan, but is currently experiencing water flows down 30 percent from its normal levels. The Indus is Pakistan’s primary freshwater source, on which 90 percent of its agriculture depends. According to a number of Pakistani agriculture and water experts, the nation is heading towards a massive water shortage in the next couple of years due to insufficient water management practices and storage capacity, which will be exacerbated by the twin Indian hydroelectric projects, as they will further diminish the Indus’ flow.

So, if push comes to shove, who’s got Pakistan’s back?

China.

During the Boao Forum for Asia, on China’s southern Hainan island on 1 April, Pakistan and China agreed to support each other “in all circumstances” and vowed to uphold their sovereignty and territorial integrity at all costs. Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani told Chinese Executive Vice Premier Li Keqiang, “China’s friend is our friend, and China’s enemy is ours,” adding Pakistan considers China’s security as its own security and supports China’s position on Taiwan, Tibet and Xinqiang. Li replied that China would support Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in every situation, telling Gilani, “No matter what changes take place at international level, we will uphold Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

It might be noted here that in October 1962, coinciding with the Cuban missile crisis, India and China fought a brief but bitter war along their disputed Himalayan border.

Fifty years later, China and India have yet to resolve their border issues over Kashmir and China continues to claim most of India’s Arunachal Pradesh to the base of the Himalayas in the absence of any definitive treaty delineating the border. Kashmir remains the site of the world’s largest and most militarized territorial dispute with portions under the de facto administration of China (Aksai Chin), India (Jammu and Kashmir), and Pakistan (Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas).

No guesses therefore as to whom Beijing might back should Pakistani-Indian tensions continue to rise.

Accordingly, to keep the peace, one might paraphrase Ronald Reagan in Berlin – “Prime Minister Singh, tear down those dams!”

But don’t bet on it.

By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com

zap
5th April 2012, 08:46 AM
Good Morning Ponce

I have said it too. Water will be like gold someday.;)

Awoke
5th April 2012, 08:52 AM
That is why we must all take to the battle field against the bastards who are trying to use paper language to turn water into a "Commodity". Water is the absolute most important thing we will ever have to fight for.

Hi Ponce, and welcome back.

osoab
5th April 2012, 08:59 AM
Morning Ponce.

How's the pooch and the kitty?

Heimdhal
5th April 2012, 09:07 AM
oh imagine that....hes back. Must be lonley out in space.

Spectrism
5th April 2012, 09:07 AM
Huh? What war?

There have been battles over river diversions and water use for thousands of years. This is nothing new.

Dogman
5th April 2012, 09:21 AM
All of the major rivers in SEA mostly originate from Tibet, and china controls that area. So all of the country's south of the Himalayan mountains are at risk if china diverts or dams those rivers. Plus not mentioned is country's in Africa and the Nile river in particular, country's upstream of Egypt are damming both branches of the Nile and that will put Egypt at risk and raises the possibility of war also.

As the glaciers in the Himalayan mountains melt off and disappear, guess what do you think china out of the goodness of its heart will allow the flow of those rivers go south? China has plans for that water for its own use, crops and industry's and the hell with other country's and peoples that are not Chinese.

The shit will hit the fan someday in the future, you can take that to the bank.

solid
5th April 2012, 09:44 AM
Ponce AND Dogman are back! Welcome back guys!!

goldleaf
5th April 2012, 09:55 AM
I've always heard that there is the same amount of water on earth now as there was when God made it. Water evaporates and comes back down, maybe some where else though. It never really disappears

Awoke
5th April 2012, 11:15 AM
I've always heard that there is the same amount of water on earth now as there was when God made it. Water evaporates and comes back down, maybe some where else though. It never really disappears

OF course. It is a closed loop system. That's part of the purification process too. The water can't get through the atmosphere. It's stuck here!

palani
5th April 2012, 11:31 AM
Ancient empires were formed based upon watersheds.

Sparky
5th April 2012, 11:39 AM
I've always heard that there is the same amount of water on earth now as there was when God made it. Water evaporates and comes back down, maybe some where else though. It never really disappears
That only conserves the amount of total water. It doesn't address purity or geographical distribution. Therein lies the potential problem.

For example, there are oceans full of water, but to desalinate it and move it where the people are is extremely expensive. Like oil, it's not so much an issue of supply as it is affordable supply. And since natural water flow is an important mechanism for distribution, the concept of geographical water "rights" becomes another complicating factor.

Gaillo
5th April 2012, 11:45 AM
Welcome back, Ponce and Dogman!

Been missing y'all...

horseshoe3
5th April 2012, 11:49 AM
+1. It's a great day for the forum.

General of Darkness
5th April 2012, 03:45 PM
Thanks for the article Ponce. In particular isn't Izzy desperate for water also?

gunDriller
5th April 2012, 04:35 PM
welcome back ~ Ponce & Dogman ~ you were missed !

Libertytree
5th April 2012, 04:50 PM
Welcome back Dogman!

Neuro
6th April 2012, 05:02 AM
Welcome back Ponce and Dogman!

Interesting article, as to what side China will take in an India, Pakistan conflict... I would say Pakistan, historically they have always done that. Mainly because China is in competition with India as regional super power. However as China is rapidly is becoming a world Super Power in competition with USA, possibly they may opt to become friends with India, and throw Pakistan under the bus, which would create mayhem for US in Afghanistan, and make an attack on Iran subsequently 10 times more risky...

The more I think about it the more the latter seems probable

Yes we live in interesting times!

Silver Rocket Bitches!
6th April 2012, 06:26 AM
The Great Lakes will be a major front seeing as they are over 80% of the nation's freshwater and all.

Sparky
6th April 2012, 09:40 AM
The Great Lakes will be a major front seeing as they are over 80% of the nation's freshwater and all.
And straddling international borders...