International Conflict over Water Resources in Himalayan Asia - Wirsing, R. a Jasparro, C. a Stoll, D.

The authors explore the fresh water crisis of Himalayan Asia. While the region hosts some of the world's mightiest rivers, it is also home to rapidly modernizing, increasingly affluent, and demographically multiplying societies, ensuring the rapid depletion of water resources and of disputes over ownership of transboundary waters.