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India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty is a strategic and symbolic masterstroke, capitalizing on a broken bilateral ...
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 ...
The treaty had survived three wars and other conflicts between the bitter rivals, while withstanding many twists and turns in ...
Map of the Indus River basin with tributaries labeled ... over the eastern tributaries of the Indus—the Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej rivers. India was also permitted limited, non-consumptive use ...
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 ...
The Colorado River Basin’s groundwater supplies are dwindling, thanks to a combination of both natural events and human pumping activities, a new study has found. The critical Western system ...
Dr. V. Nityananda has suggested that China may be discreetly obstructing the flow of the Sutlej River into Indian territory. It is important to note that the Indus Waters Treaty governs the ...
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 ...
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 ...