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In Asian Juggernaut, the revelatory and important International Bestseller by Brahma Chellaney,a renowned authority on Asia's political and economic development offers an incisive and insightful analysis of the region's pivotal role on the world stage. Examining the rise of China, India, and Japan as preeminent powers and their key position in the global future, Asian Juggernaut is a book that must be read by anyone interested in the shape of tomorrow's world.

At a time when Asia is at a defining moment in its history, water stress has emerged as one of its most serious challenges. Water shortages have not only stirred geopolitical tensions by intensifying competition over the resources of shared rivers and aquifers, but they also threaten Asia's continued economic rise.

Chellaney examines one of the least visible, but overwhelmingly vital issues facing China and India--the dilemma of how to manage or dispose the world's largest stockpile of freshwater. In an increasingly water-stressed Asia, the struggle for water is escalating political tensions and intensifying the impact on ecosystems. In the case of Sino-Indian relations, water is becoming a key security issue and a potential source of serious discord. China, having established hydro-supremacy by annexing the starting places of multiple major international rivers, is now pursuing an increasingly ambitious dam-building program on the Tibetan plateau, which threatens to diminish international river flows into India and other states that share these same upland water resources. Adapted from the source document.