Water and its present and projected scarcity is a huge issue in the places we go to climb .... Whether in the American southwest, Peru, or as talked about here, the Himalaya. The major rivers of Asia start in the Himalayan mountains, and as this essay mentions there are already significant border disputes and more to come in this region, over who controls the flw of water. Will the subject of water rights have two nuclear powers squaring off in the future?
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