[Recent years have witnessed water emerging as a hot issue between India and Pakistan relations. Pakistan is averse to India taking advantage of Indus Rivers emanating from Kashmir by building hydro-e ...

Dr Arvind Kumar** Editor, SAR Economist.Gangetic Plain lies in the centre of Uttar Pradesh. Having highly fertile alluvial soils, this region is flat in topography and broken by numerous ponds, lakes ...

By Dr Arvind Kumar**President, India Water Foundation, New Delhi.Recent months have witnessed fast pace of developments occurring in Afghanistan without pointing out towards any tabgible solution of t ...

Recent months have witnessed fast pace of developments occurring in Afghanistan without pointing out towards any tabgible solution of the decade-long Afghan crisis. The last week of June this year saw ...

Dr Arvind Kumar**President, India Water Foundation, New Delhi (India).Broadly speaking, there are more than two billion people worldwide who are currently living in regions afflicted with water scarci ...

Contemporary growth theories make it discernible that environmental sustainability is potentially incompatible with uninterrupted economic growth in the wake of limited resources. Inability to achieve ...

Dr Arvind Kumar*President, India Water Foundation, New Delhi. The recent drought in southern China, the worst drought in past five decades, has dried up farmers’ fields and left tens of millions of pe ...

Dr Arvind Kumar**President, India Water FoundationChina’s policy toward Afghanistan is a mixture of many paradoxes. Beijing perceives ample commercial opportunities in Afghanistan. However, it alone c ...

Dr Arvind Kumar** President, India Water Foundation, New Delhi. The author is grateful to Thomas Chiramba, a senior UNEP official, for borrowing some of his ideas in this article. In the wake of mount ...