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2010-05-01 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Steve White 2010-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Wait till China channels water to Pakistan from the giant dams they are building on the Himalayan headwaters. Water that would otherwise flow into India.

Posted by phil_b 2010-05-01 03:37|| 2010-05-01 03:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Must be a pleasant change from fighting over religion and whether India has besmirched whatever part of the Pakistani national honor that wasn't already pre-smirched.

Posted by SteveS 2010-05-01 11:46|| 2010-05-01 11:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Under the IWT, India gave all the water from 3 rivers to Pakistan. No other upper riparian state has done that.

The IWT is not just a treaty between India and Pakistan. It was negotiated by Robert McNamara and the World Bank is a signatory and guarantor of the treaty. Neutral experts and arbitration courts can be invoked.

None have ruled for Pakistan.

Pakistan is trying to prevent India from exercising its rights under the treaty (by building power projects) because Pakistan itself cannot afford to build power projects.

Posted by john frum 2010-05-01 12:27|| 2010-05-01 12:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Also, under the IWT, Pakistan gets 4 times the water that India does, even though Pakistan has a much smaller population.

Pakistan may regret bringing up the water issue. If India renegotiates the treaty, Pakistan will find them far less generous today than Nehru was in the 60s.

Posted by john frum 2010-05-01 12:29|| 2010-05-01 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Water that would otherwise flow into India

The drainage basins for those rivers lie mostly in India. They also flow to Bangladesh.
So while water flow would be cut slightly, guess who loses in the end?

Posted by john frum 2010-05-01 12:30|| 2010-05-01 12:30|| Front Page Top

#6 I love Rantburg U. Thanks, John.

Posted by SteveS 2010-05-01 19:49|| 2010-05-01 19:49|| Front Page Top

#7 the Zangmu hydroelectric project on the Yarlung River Zangbo. The project itself is a source of tensions with India, which is concerned that the damming the river, known as the Brahmaputra in India, could harm downstream flows in one of Asia's most economically vital waterways.
The Zangmu Dam is the first of five planned for the 100-kilometre Jiacha Canyon (pictured), which is southeast of Tibets capital of Lhasa. However, geologists have said that the area is prone to earthquakes.

Posted by phil_b 2010-05-01 21:31|| 2010-05-01 21:31|| Front Page Top

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