I must confess, I have trouble seeing water as a political or geopolitical issue (it doesn't register at all down here, except perhaps for all the gallons now being wasted on ethanol, but that's another story), but I do understand it's a different story north of the 49th. Therefore, perhaps some of you may be interested in an analysis I found on Tibet, Communist China, and the Himalayan water supply (see News from the occupied nations ). ...