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Resource Conflicts

Posted By mike On July 21, 2010 @ 8:58 am In Small Foot Print | 1 Comment

The US has invaded two countries in the past ten years to gain or maintain control of petro resources. The US economy demands so much petroleum that we have not yet had to invade a country over water, but anyone who follows the flow of rivers from the US to Mexico is aware that Mexico gets water when the US does not need it.

As US drones attack Pakistanis and further destabilize this small, nuclear power, and global warming, population pressure make crucial natural resources like water a flashpoint for conflict, we should think hard about whether we really want to model belligerent military solutions to every conflict. Keep in mind that both India and Pakistan both possess nuclear weapons and longstanding grudges.

It’s not too late to embrace another way.

Keep hope alive.
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Water Dispute Increases India-Pakistan Tension


BANDIPORE, Kashmir — In this high Himalayan valley on the Indian-controlled side of Kashmir, the latest battle line between India and Pakistan has been drawn.


This time it is not the ground underfoot, which has been disputed since the bloody partition of British India in 1947, but the water hurtling from mountain glaciers to parched farmers’ fields in Pakistan’s agricultural heartland.


Indian workers here are racing to build an expensive hydroelectric dam in a remote valley near here, one of several India plans to build over the next decade to feed its rapidly growing but power-starved economy.


In Pakistan, the project raises fears that India, its archrival and the upriver nation, would have the power to manipulate the water flowing to its agriculture industry — a quarter of its economy and employer of half its population. In May it filed a case with the international arbitration court to stop it.

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