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Water Dispute Between India And Pakistan

Presenting

Ziaullah Khan Farwa ShahWaleed Afzal Anmol ShoukatJawwad Qammaer Zainab Khan

Introduction

• Signed by Pakistani President Mohammad Ayub Khan and Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru sign, September 16, 1960

• Rivers given to India (Ravi, Beas and Sutlej)

• Rivers given to Pakistan (the Indus, Jehlum and Chenab)

• India is not allowed to build any storage on the rivers allocated to Pakistan

Indus Water Treaty

Indus Water Treaty

• Violation of Treaty By India• Baglihar dam • Kishanganga dam• At the time the IWT was signed, Pakistani

President Ayub Khan stated:• “The sources of the rivers are in India…and

India had made arrangements to divert the waters…every factor was against us, the only sensible thing to do was to try and get a settlement; though it might be the second best, but if we did not we stood to lose everything.”

Pakistan India Talks

• Under the 1960 Indus water treaty, India is not permitted to

build dams for the purpose of water storage

• Talks on the issue of the baglihar dam

• Final notice to the Indian government in 2003

• Bilateral talks between the two countries are now increasingly focused on water disputes.

Pakistan India Talks

• Agreement set in the 1978 case of the salal dam

• The statement about the loss of water in “Roznama express”

• In october 2008, president zardari took "serious notice" of the issue and warned of “damage to bilateral relations”

• India did not want to compromise with pakistan and also violated the terms and conditions of the indus water treaty

Water Wars

▪ Why India and Pakistan Are Squaring Off Over Their Rivers?

▪ The countries' signed an accord in 1960 called the Indus Waters Treaty.

▪ Pakistan's rivers flow through India first, the government has a total of 45 projects either already completed or in the proposal stage on the western rivers.

▪ The countries have already been embroiled in two high-profile legal fights over water.

▪ The World Bank, which had been a party to the original treaty, appointed a Swiss civil engineer to arbitrate the technical aspects.

Future Horizons

▪ UN bodies warned that given the rising tension over the water issue between Pakistan and India, the world could be perilously close to its first water war.

▪ A security report from the US Director of National Intelligence released this year says……….

▪ Last year, Pakistani newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt urged the government……..

▪ ''More people will be killed by insanitary water than by all the sum total of all the wars and all the insurgencies that might be fought.''

LOCATION OF PROJECTS ON RIVER INDUS

LOCATION OF COMMISSIONED PROJECTS ON RIVER JHELUM

Conclusion

• Matter of life and death

• Water Authorities

• Solution

• The Water War it is