This article has a few interesting tidbits, but the most striking is the possibility of armed conflict between Pakistan and India over water in the future:
“India and Pakistan are both nuclear-armed countries. All of the agriculture in Pakistan and all of the agriculture in northern India depend on glacier-fed rivers that come off the Himalayas from the Tibetan plateau. Those glaciers are melting,” Dr Dyer said.
“They’re melting according to Chinese scientists to 7 per cent a year, which means they’re half gone in 10 years.
“India has a problem with this. Pakistan faces an absolutely lethal emergency because Pakistan is basically a desert with a braid of rivers running through it.
“Those rivers all start with one exception in Indian-controlled territory and there’s a complex series of deals between the two countries about who gets to take so much water out of the river. Those deals break down when there’s not that much water in the rivers.”
No explicit time estimates are given, just the suggestion that things that had been projected for around 2040 might be happening closer to 2010. Pretty sobering stuff.
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