The article comes from the author's book: "Water: The new battleground of Asia," published in 2011 and examines the geopolitical risks arising from the construction of dams, especially in Asia can be isolated. This paper considers the extensive water stress and competition, which focused on four different areas such as China and its neighbors; South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia, where the collapse of the Soviet Union left the conflicting interests over water resources among the five so-called 'Stans "- Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.



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