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Comment: Technology and state sovereignty over water resources.

  • UPSC 1996
  • 20 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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Water is claimed as a sovereign resource, but it flows across borders: there are some 310 transboundary river basins covering nearly half the earth's land surface. Technology in the form of dams, barrages, diversions, inter-basin transfers and hydropower turns geographical position into control. It has therefore changed what sovereignty over water means in practice, enlarging…

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  • Competing doctrines of sovereignty
  • How technology reshapes sovereignty
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