Indus Water Treaty Current Status Raises Regional Concerns

The Indus Water Treaty has outlasted wars, military standoffs, and decades of political hostility between India and Pakistan. That is not a small thing. Signed in 1960, it divided the rivers of the Indus basin between two newly separated countries that have fought multiple armed conflicts since. The treaty kept working through all of it. Whether it continues to work through the current period of tensions  over hydroelectric dam disputes, shifting geopolitics, and the added pressure of climate change on river systems  is the question the Indus water Treaty current…

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