The ruling means the railway can move forward — at least legally. But opposition at the local level is far from over.

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

India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty is a strategic and symbolic masterstroke, capitalizing on a broken bilateral ...

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 ...

Federal government has inaugurated the new governing boards and executive management teams of the 12 River Basin Development Authorities (RBDAs), tasking them to spearhead efforts on food security ...

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 ...

The IWT granted Pakistan unrestricted use of the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab while India retained the smaller Ravi, Beas and Sutlej plus token run-of-river rights. India thus controls the Himalayan ...

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.

John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said he was frustrated with the pace of negotiations that could determine how the Colorado River is shared in the future and that the Upper Basin states may be pushing back ...