This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Northern India embraces a sprawling network of waters, from the muddy tributaries of the Indus in the west to the banks ...
By: Faisal HassanBeyond Kotri Barrage to the sea, and Indus tributaries in Punjab—Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, and Sutlej—flow past barrages to Kotri. Now, the dry beds of all these rivers are filled ...
Imagine the great cities of the world gone forever. London has slowly disappeared, submerged under the swollen Thames. Cairo, Los Angeles and Sydney have all been abandoned to drought and desert.
In partitioning the land on a religious basis, the peculiarities of the Indus momentarily were ignored. This 1800-mile-long river rises in the Himalayas of Tibet, is fed by six tributaries ...
Increasing demand for food production coupled with inefficient irrigation practices is exacerbating water scarcity.
of 1960 merely bifurcates the six major rivers flowing from the Indus. Pakistan has been allocated three western tributaries of the Indus, which allows it to use 80% of all the water flowing ...
While India has been pressing for resolution of the Indus Valley Treaty issue by the neutral expert, Pakistan has been ...
Both these projects are over a tributary of the Chenab river. According to the Indus Waters Treaty signed between India and Pakistan in 1960, "all the water of the eastern rivers - Sutlej ...
Signed in 1960, the Indus Waters Treaty sought to ensure equitable water distribution amid growing tensions between India and ...
The Neutral Expert has said that it has the 'competence' to decide on differences between India & Pakistan related to the ...