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Fate of Indus Water Treaty?
India's recent move to construct the Shahpur Kandi Barrage on the Ravi River is a flagrant violation of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) signed with Pakistan. And it has stirred a caul­dron of ...
How does India’s water diplomacy balance regional cooperation with its national and strategic interests, especially in ...
It allocates the eastern rivers (Sutlej, Beas, and Ravi) to India and the western rivers (Indus ... river basin, and the Ratle project, coming up on the Chenab, at the centre of the dispute. The ...
Just as the bank of a river doesn’t remain static, the problems and opportunities associated with the Indus Basin have changed as well. It’s time for a new treaty. Can the decades-long ...
Some months back, I visited a village in Badin, Sindh, and there I met Ghulam Rasool, an old farmer. Sitting in the shade of ...
The only option with India at present is to draw the maximum benefit from provisions of the treaty. This would involve utilising all available waters of the eastern rivers and exploiting full ...
The treaty marks the end of a twelve-year fight between India and Pakistan over the division of the waters of the immense Indus River basin, a parched and hilly region which overlaps northwest ...
India is planning a dramatic reconfiguring of the Indus Waters Treaty for the sharing of six rivers with Pakistan. Internationally it is seen as a response to the Uri ...
EVERY rhythmic flow in the Indus River once carried the quiet melodies of the place the dolphin calls home. In this era of neglect, that voice is lost. One of the primary contributors is our ...