May 28: Asia Times report by F.M. Shakil states that Pakistan is bracing for a grave water crisis because of climate change and India’s tacit ‘control and management policy’ on the flow of water from the Himalaya-Karakorum mountain range into the Indus Valley. A dispute over the 58-year-old Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan that the World Bank is trying to resolve has intensified after an US$864 million run-of-the-river Kishanganga hydroelectric plant was inaugurated by India to divert water from the Kishanganga River to the Jhelum River basin north of Bandipore in Jammu and Kashmir.
Asia Times: New Indian dam threatens to parch Pakistan
