Pakistan is getting dry

[Master Chief]

I will suggest you read it properly.

Just to hint that equitable and reasonable utilization of shared water resources is the main motive, as of now, Pakistan is getting most of the water shares.

even detailed data, justification, and remediation plans regarding water usage and wastage, since factors such as population, existing use, geography, climate, and economic needs are taken into consideration.

At present, Pakistan is not accountable for wasting waters; there is no proper water management. These things will not work under

Overall, Pakistan will lose bargaining power for more water. Even at present, Pakistan receives roughly 80%; the percentage will likely shrink if India puts things to better utilization of waters for local people.

At present, Pakistan is just enjoying the old treaty, but it would not be working since the climate is changing and Pakistan usually wastes most of the waters.

I never said the water supply should be stopped, but I am against the incompetence of successive Pakistani governments over the past 50 years. They have largely relied on blaming others instead of improving water management and building adequate dams and storage infrastructure. Now the world is starting to face the water crises, due to climate change, but it still just relies on blaming.

You still haven't read it. You still don't know what the UN Resolution entails and how it is different from the IWT and that one facilitates the other without being duplicative.

As for your CONSTANT whining that Pakistan gets greater share - that is precisely because of the greater floodplain volume and utility that Pakistan avails. Similarly, water wastage or inefficiency by Pakistan is not actually a concern of Hindustan. H
This is a faux concern. We're not here any more to work together with your vile nation who punitively refuses to share hydrology data that itself would save lives and livelihoods. We're here now to take what is ours.

 

[Yasser76]

Sure.. or you can wait for that to happen and see where that takes you.

P.S. It's a non binding UN resolution.

It is a resolution India is in defiance of, so nothing to do with Government of Pakistan as you stated, just correcting you with facts.

 

[Yasser76]

Such treaties do not hold much value.

Today, if India says it is cancelling the treaty, what can the World Bank do at most? Almost nothing.

As I said earlier, such matters mainly depend on the relationship between countries. For example, India and China do not have a similar water-sharing treaty.

Yes, there is the UN Watercourses Convention. If it were to apply, Pakistan would have to provide detailed data, justification, and remediation plans regarding water usage and wastage, since factors such as population, existing use, geography, climate, and economic needs are taken into consideration.

It does not require countries to follow a rigid or one-sided framework and share water blindly. Instead, it emphasizes reasonable and equitable use based on multiple factors.

They may hold no value, but Pakistan will then be perfectly within its rights to implement it by force

 

[Raj-Hindustani]

You still haven't read it. You still don't know what the UN Resolution entails and how it is different from the IWT and that one facilitates the other without being duplicative.

As for your CONSTANT whining that Pakistan gets greater share - that is precisely because of the greater floodplain volume and utility that Pakistan avails. Similarly, water wastage or inefficiency by Pakistan is not actually a concern of Hindustan. H
This is a faux concern. We're not here any more to work together with your vile nation who punitively refuses to share hydrology data that itself would save lives and livelihoods. We're here now to take what is ours.

Just for your reference, there is no such UN resolution for water. There are a few:

1. UN Watercourses Convention (1997)​

• Global framework for international rivers.
• Principles: equitable use, no significant harm, cooperation.
• India and Pakistan are not parties.

2. UNECE Water Convention (1992)

• Full name: Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes.
• Originally for Europe, now open to all UN member states.
• Promotes cooperation on shared waters.
• Neither India nor Pakistan is currently a party.

3. Helsinki Rules (1966)

• Developed by the International Law Association.
• Influential but not a treaty and not legally binding.
• Introduced the concept of "equitable utilization."

4. Berlin Rules (2004)

• Updated version of the Helsinki Rules.
• Also not a treaty and not legally binding.

Overall, I would say there is no treaty that can force India to share water beyond its obligations. A similar situation exists between India and China, as both countries do not have a water-sharing treaty.

There are also many rivers that flow through multiple countries without such treaties.

This is one reason Pakistan's war threats are empty, because there is no international mechanism that can help it force a different water-sharing arrangement.

Even today if India scrapped IWT treaty, UN or world bank cant do much.

 

[Jaeger]

It is a resolution India is in defiance of, so nothing to do with Government of Pakistan as you stated, just correcting you with facts.

Firstly it is a non obligatory recommendation and not a binding settlement.

Secondly Pakistan is in defiance of it and not India..for the very fisrt phase of this recommendation requires Pakistan to remove all its soldiers and citizens from entire Jammu and Kashmir including GB and AJK.

Which Pakistan has never done in last 76 years.