Elevating river basin management and cooperation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region

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Future of one billion people and globally significant ecosystems relies on collaboration over Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra

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Key messages

     Indus

The Indus runs for approx. 3,200 km and is a major source of water for drinking, household use, irrigation, and energy production for 268M people who inhabit the basin (projected to rise to 319 million by 2025). It is critical to the food bowl regions of Punjab in India and Pakistan as well as Sindh in Pakistan… read more

     Ganges

600 million people in India, just under half the country’s entire population and all of Nepal’s population (29M) live in the Ganges basin, as do millions in Bangladesh. The sheer scale (2,525km in length and 1,086,000km2 in expanse) and social dynamics of the Ganges River Basin (gender, poverty and social inequity) make it one of the most complex in the world… read more

     Brahmaputra

Approximately 114 million people depend on the Brahmaputra River basin for water, electricity, food, agriculture and fishing: 58 million in Bangladesh, 39 million India, 16 million in China and 700,000 in Bhutan… read more

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Elevating river basin management and cooperation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region