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Pakistan and India are two neighboring nuclear powers of South Asia. Since their independence in 1947, there has a water conflict between these two states. A water treaty was signed between, in 1960 with the help of World Bank, to address this conflict which divided six conflicting rivers in to three Eastern and three Western rivers by allocating Eastern rivers to India and Western rivers to Pakistan. As India is upper riparian, she was given absolute right to use the waters of Eastern rivers. At the same time, she was also allowed to use the waters of of Pakistani (Western) rivers for non-consumptive use. For this purpose she was allowed to build the run-of-the-river limited storage for the purpose of power generation and navigation. The treaty gives very minute details regarding these building of projects and their procedure. After signing of treaty in 1960, India has/been built/building various hydro-electric power plants/storages on western rivers. The building of these plants/storages by India has become controversial between India and Pakistan. The Western rivers which have been allotted to Pakistan by the treaty provide more that 90% water to Pakistan. Pakistan is of the vie

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Author

Abdul Waheed

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Government & Politics, Social_sciences