Questioning the water wars rationale: a case study of the Indus Waters Treaty

Alam, Undala

doi:10.1111/j.0016-7398.2002.00060.x

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“…A critical actor in this water dispute was the World Bank and the good offi ces that it established. Equally important was the trust the World Bank tried to cultivate among leaders in the two countries as well as the fi nancial support both countries received through the Indus Basin Development Fund (IBDF) (Alam 2002 ). Cooperation between Pakistan and India was rational because both countries "needed water urgently to maintain existing works, and tap the irrigation potential in the Indus basin to develop socioeconomically, but it was the involvement and strategies of the World Bank that encouraged this kind of rational thinking (Alam 2002 , 347).…”

Section: Avenues To Water Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water Security in the Middle East : Essays in Scientific and Social Cooperation

Cahan¹

2017

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Section: Avenues To Water Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water Security in the Middle East : Essays in Scientific and Social Cooperation

Cahan¹

2017

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“…This is a treaty resulting from two water conflicts (1947 and 1948), plus a long negotiation process, and signed by three parties: India, Pakistan and the World Bank (Alam, 2002 andMustafa, 2007). The water sharing plan allows India to use the three eastern tributaries of the basin (Sutlej, Ravi and Beas, about 20% of the Indus waters) and Pakistan to use the three western tributaries (Indus, Jhelum and Chenab, about 80% of Indus waters).…”

Section: Anthropogenic Influencementioning

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Climate Change Risk on the Water Resources Management of Himalayan Basins

Yang

Ray

et al. 2014

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2014

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The latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) projection from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows very large uncertainty in climatechange-related risk in the Himalaya region. Inability to plan increases the challenge of water resources management for large river basins, especially in Central and South Asia. This uncertainty is largely attributable to GCMs' poor representation of the snow/glacier melting mechanism and monsoon precipitation prediction. The river basins of the Himalaya region include (from east to west): the Aral Sea basins (Syr Darya and Amu Darya), the Indus Basin, the Ganges Basin and the Brahmaputra Basin. The total population in these basins is about 1.8 billion and is projected to increase faster than other world regions. The increasing population and complex political/socioeconomic conditions make this region even more vulnerable to climate change risks. This study provides a comprehensive summary of the climate change risks in this region and covers topics from climatology and hydrology (natural-system perspective) to water resources system and socioeconomic impacts (anthropocentric perspective). It is expected that this comprehensive knowledge platform will provide guidance for future water-resources-related studies in sub-areas as diverse as energy and food security, infrastructure development, flood and drought management, planning for extreme events, and transboundary water sharing.

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“…There is ample scope for harnessing the available water by improving the water courses, sealing the canal beds and making proper storage arrangements for times of want. In this case, there is definitely no need to go to war over water (Alam 2002;Stucki 2005;Barnaby 2009) because improving water management and irrigation practices is significantly cheaper.…”

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Scarcity within opulence: Water management in the Karakoram Mountains revisited

Kreutzmann¹

2011

J. Mt. Sci.

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Water management in general and in the Indus Basin in particular is concerned with the energy-efficient transportation of hydrologically exploitable resources from the upper zone to climatically favourable areas where irrigation helps to supersede arid conditions for the cultivation of crops and watering of meadows. In other words: Human intervention sets the stage for the allocation of water from a wider catchment area in a smaller habitat where this resource is deficient. Emphasis on mountain irrigation practices is counteracted with developments in the forelands where different frame conditions prevail and peculiar development problems occur. In dealing with the importance of water from the mountain regions three dimensions have to be evaluated: 1) natural factors and their validity for the environmental frame conditions and technological adaptation processes; 2) social factors and their impact on culture, economy and equitability; 3) institutional factors and their importance for sustainable growth and for the implementation of development projects. In the study of decentralized irrigation systems in high mountain regions of the Indus Basin a systems theoretical approach values the complexity of interrelationships between different systems elements. Human activities in arid mountain regions are restricted by limiting ecological factors and are characterized by certain utilization and adaptive strategies.

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Questioning the water wars rationale: a case study of the Indus Waters Treaty

Cited by 100 publications

References 11 publications

Water Security in the Middle East : Essays in Scientific and Social Cooperation

Water Security in the Middle East : Essays in Scientific and Social Cooperation

Climate Change Risk on the Water Resources Management of Himalayan Basins

Scarcity within opulence: Water management in the Karakoram Mountains revisited

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