A study by Dr. Joosje van Bennekom and her colleagues aimed to determine the provenance of the famed silver basin supposedly ...

As water supplies in the Colorado River decline, Central Arizona is first on the chopping block, leaving cities to compete for limited resources ...

Suspended Indus Water Treaty should be reworked to factor in climate change and other realities, say specialists ...

The Sutlej is heavily dependent on snow and glacier melt, contributing more than half of its annual discharge. But studies show the river basin has already lost 21% of its glacier volume since the ...

Mediated by the World Bank, the treaty aimed at establishing an equitable way to share the river’s resources. The agreement gave India control over the eastern rivers – Ravi, Beas and Sutlej ...

The treaty had survived three wars and other conflicts between the bitter rivals, while withstanding many twists and turns in diplomatic ties.

A map showing the extent of the Columbia River basin highlighting the dams in the treaty.

What studies have been done to map flows and water availability? We have done modelling studies to understand how glaciers are going to change in the future, and how this will affect water ...

and the Sutlej. When the Eastern branches exit India, they become available to Pakistan. Yet despite the river’s importance, Pakistan has scant capacity to manage against sustained shortfalls in water ...

Sutlej) for exclusive Indian use. While India cannot stop water flows immediately, but even a marginal reduction in river flow could cripple irrigation cycles in key agricultural belts like Punjab ...

close to 80 percent of the cultivated land in Pakistan depends on the Indus river system and the country accounts for over 60 percent of the 237 million people who live in the Indus Basin.