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Mujtaba Wani SRINAGAR: Kashmir's Kolahoi glacier, which is the largest in the valley and which also feeds its main river, is melting faster than other Himalayan glaciers, glaciologists warn. This trend could put under threat the water supply to hundreds of thousands of people in the region. Experts say rising temperatures are rapidly shrinking Himalayan glaciers, underscoring the effects of climate change that has caused temperatures in the mountainous region to rise by about 1.1 degrees...
Posted 63 days ago.
NEW DELHI: Though the Court of Arbitration at The Hague has upheld Indian’s right under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty to divert waters from the Rs. 3,600-crore hydro-electric project in the Kishenganga, the battle is not yet over. In its ‘partial award’ delivered on Monday in the dispute between India and Pakistan over the 330 MW project, the Court ruled that India would have to maintain a minimum flow in the river, known as Neelum in Pakistan. The rate will be determined by the Court in its final award, which is...
Posted 119 days ago.
Ashiq Hussain SRINAGAR: Around 60 percent of villages in Jammu and Kashmir state, known for its glaciers, fresh water lakes and streams, have insufficient supply of drinking water while one-third of total households consume unsafe water, a study has revealed. The study conducted by National Level Monitoring agency of the rural development ministry has also found that nearly half of the total schools in villages are supplied with unsafe drinking water. The assessing officers found that only...
Posted 139 days ago.
Ashiq Hussain SRINAGAR, Aug 10: Providing safe drinking water is a farfetched dream in Khanpora area of Kashmir. Nearly 15,000 villagers of Khanpora area in north Kashmir's Baramulla district were supplied drinking water containing "extremely high levels of nitrates, phosphates and iron" for over a year - courtesy the public health and engineering department. The problem came to the fore when villagers started complaining of digestive and intestine problems. Health experts say that high...
Posted 314 days ago.
SRINAGAR, July 8: Authorities have issued directions to people living in old parts of Kashmir capital Srinagar to store water as the supply will remain affected for two days starting Monday. "Due to repairs and replacement of pipe lines near Zaina Kadal, the water supply for Zaina Kadal, Gurgari Mohalla, Nawab Bazar, Urdu Bazar, Kalamdanpora, Habba Kadal, Dal Hassanyar, Kani Kadal, Zaindar Mohalla, Karan Nagar and other areas in downtown Srinagar would remain affected from July 09 to July 10, 2012," Executive Engineer,...
Posted 346 days ago.
Ieshan Wani SRINAGAR, July 8: Its crystal clear waters would once leave all - Emperors, travellers and the locals alike - enchanted. But now the Jhelum, a Paisley-shaped flowing river, has been polluted with its water unpleasantly opaque and muddy. An elderly local Bashir Ahmad, who has spent his childhood playing around the Jhelum, still remembers the "calm and sweet breeze on its banks". "Times have changed. The new generation prefers to stay away from the river because there’s dirt...
Posted 347 days ago.
SRINAGAR, May 5: Water taxis became a reality in Kashmir as authorities today launched the service on Jhelum river in an effort to reduce traffic congestion in the city. The first water taxi having a total capacity of eight passengers was flagged off from Peerzoo to Chattabal Veer providing an alternate route to locals. "Besides providing an alternate transport facility to locals, the new service is expected to attract tourists visiting Kashmir," a senior government official said. The idea to start water transport...
Posted 410 days ago.
By Zubair A. Dar Imagining Karachi from a distance brings to mind a picture of the Indus delta where the river deposits millions of tons of silt each year into the Arabian Sea, adding to a complex system of swamps, streams and mangrove forests. Locating the river in Karachi is, however, a challenge. None of its seventeen branches, supposing all of them still exist, looks like a stream of water. Wandering through Karachi is an encounter with drains full of raw sewage flowing into the Arabian Sea. The dark effluent of the...
Posted 427 days ago.
John C.K. Daly 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...
Posted 432 days ago.
Athar Parvaiz SRINAGAR, March 31: When Mariam Akhtar began teaching at a government school in a water-starved village in Indian Kashmir, she received an education of her own in the ways local people adapt to climate change. “I was surprised to see the heads of most of my students shaved,” said Akhtar, who works at a school in Dongerpora, 27 km (17 miles) north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state in the northwest of India. “When I enquired, it...
Posted 446 days ago.
