Water crisis in the subcontinent

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Water crisis in the subcontinent​

US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee has warned against a water crisis in Asia leading to water wars in the subcontinent.

Its report says that new dams and irrigation works in Kashmir could give India the ability to deny Pakistan its share of water at crucial moments like crop— growing seasons. The Indus Water Treaty that regulates the water sharing by two countries was signed in 1960 and has remained intact despite major conflicts including wars in the area.

However, times are changing and India is trying to have more control over the water it shares with Pakistan. Pakistan, argues India, has failed to construct enough dams and reservoirs on the downstream rivers resulting in annual discharging of 30-35 million acre-feet water in the Arabian Sea. So India has the right to store the water for irrigation and power generation purposes.

India has already initiated several hydropower projects on different rivers that will increase the water storage capacity up to 2.2 million acre-feet against the agreed capacity of 1.7 million acre-feet. Regrettably, Pakistan’s reaction to India building dams in apparent violation of the Indus Water Treaty has been very feeble. Nor has it shown any urgency to store the water at its end.

As per US senate report, at present 33 Indian hydropower projects are at different stages of completion on the rivers it shares with Pakistan. Obviously India will find a way to go around the treaty to complete the projects, leaving Pakistan to look to the World Bank and other international agencies to settle the dispute. Unlike India, Pakistan’s agriculture is entirely dependent on link-canal based irrigation system fed from the rivers flowing into Pakistan from India. There is no time to lose. We hope Pakistan’s central and provincial governments would treat the issue seriously and initiate some remedial action unless they want Pakistan turn into a desert.

Water crisis in the subcontinent - Arab News

 

[HongWu]

Oh no, India's going to make a grab for Tibet soon.

 

[cross1993]

India needs desalination plant.

 

[IndianArmy]

India needs desalination plant.

India has Enough Desalination plants, Depending on Desalination will not be a good Idea for a Nation which is Keen In going green and Clean.... Desalination is not always a wise thing to do....

 

[sanibhagwan]

^^^And it is expensive...

 

[lionheart1]

every drop of water , fall in india's land belong to india , as a matter of fact, as a Sovereign country we have right to build as many dams has we want on india's land

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

every drop of water , fall in india's land belong to india , as a matter of fact, as a Sovereign country we have right to build as many dams has we want on india's land

Then why are you guys complaining about our future dams in Tibet? On the Bramaputra etc?

Remember that most of Asia's major rivers, originate in the Tibetan plateau.

By your logic, we can just build dams on everything without concern for downstream nations.

 

[lionheart1]

Then why are you guys complaining about our future dams in Tibet? On the Bramaputra etc?

Remember that most of Asia's major rivers, originate in the Tibetan plateau.

By your logic, we can just build dams on everything without concern for downstream nations.

tibet was a independent nation , china illegally occupied it after communist take over of china

 

[KS]

Then why are you guys complaining about our future dams in Tibet? On the Bramaputra etc?

Remember that most of Asia's major rivers, originate in the Tibetan plateau.

By your logic, we can just build dams on everything without concern for downstream nations.

there is nothing wrong in that if your own citizens need it for survival.

only if it is done with the sole purpose of punishing the another nation its wrong.

 

[GLOBAL HAWK]

every drop of water , fall in india's land belong to india , as a matter of fact, as a Sovereign country we have right to build as many dams has we want on india's land

U must be high right now, get some sleep

 

[justanobserver]

Then why are you guys complaining about our future dams in Tibet? On the Bramaputra etc?

Remember that most of Asia's major rivers, originate in the Tibetan plateau.

By your logic, we can just build dams on everything without concern for downstream nations.

Doesn't really matter much for India though. The Indus and the Brahmaputra cater (more or less) to Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively

 

[CardSharp]

tibet was a independent nation , china illegally occupied it after communist take over of china

How does this have bearing on what the reality is now?

 

[CardSharp]

there is nothing wrong in that if your own citizens need it for survival.

only if it is done with the sole purpose of punishing the another nation its wrong.

Think China is interested in hydropower.

 

[lionheart1]

U must be high right now, get some sleep

another example of running away , if you cant reply properly indulge in personal attacks

 

[KS]

Think China is interested in hydropower.

Well China can go ahead with it as long as it does not divert the natural course of the river and does not build reservoirs to divert the water to its parched areas.

Run-of-the-river projects to generate HEP can certainly be undertaken with prior commitments/assurances to the downstream nations.

An example is the Baglihar project in J&K