Indus Water Treaty: Discussion, News & Updates

[hydrabadi_arab]

This Pakistani expert Dr. Hassan Abbas on water management has some very interesting ideas. Not sure I agree with him or not. Some points [from what I recall watching it several days ago]
1) Most of Indus River water comes from the glacier melts in Pakistan
2) India doesn't have the capability to stop water into Pakistan
3) Dams in Pakistan are the cause of the floods. Remove them!
4) Instead of dams, use that money to exploit Pakistan's vast solar energy potentials
5) Most of Pakistan's population lives in a narrow corridor on the eastern side and that would help in tapping into the enormous subterrain water

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India obviously cannot stop all of Pakistan water even on eastern rivers. The storage dam they build on Ravi, Ranjit sagar is already 80% full as of today. Its 2 MAF dam and cannot hold back all that water. And India can't build dams in lower areas of ravi to catch all that rain. Ravi in Pakistan is in danger of floods again this year.

As silt fill Indian dams, all that water will naturally flow to Pakistan more and more in summer.

But I'm not sure if Pakistan should touch Punjab subterrain 500 MAF water yet. Maybe in 100 years when all land is irrigated efficiently and dams storage is gone with silt.

 

[Meengla]

India obviously cannot stop all of Pakistan water even on eastern rivers. The storage dam they build on Ravi, Ranjit sagar is already 80% full as of today. Its 2 MAF dam and cannot hold back all that water. And India can't build dams in lower areas of ravi to catch all that rain. Ravi in Pakistan is in danger of floods again this year.
As silt fill Indian dams, all that water will naturally flow to Pakistan more and more in summer.
But I'm not sure if Pakistan should touch Punjab subterrain 500 MAF water yet. Maybe in 100 years when all land is irrigated efficiently and dams storage is gone with silt.

Good post!
I think Pakistan should continue to challenge India on IWT but also prepare for the worst which could come from India's actions regarding water.

About the subterrain water / aquafer, I saw in a Comment to a You Tube video that Indus River would not even flow to the sea if the subterrain water was depleted? If true then there exists a large volume of water below the ground and Monsoon and snows replenish that every year. Kind of sounds hopeful to me!

 

[kambhakt]

Why the concern from you though?

Because you already care so much about the inhabitants of the Indus floodplain and their livelihoods?

About 4-5 million Pakistani hindus there btw.

They are pakistani. There Is no ummah in Hinduism.