World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin warned that whereas the conflicts of the previous 100 years had been over oil, "the wars of the next century will be fought over water." ...

Climate change has already reduced water flow in Indus; suspension of India Waters Treaty would hit at least three big hydro ...

The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), now held in abeyance by India, was hammered out in 1960 and hailed as a triumph of diplomacy.

It could prompt China to block the Brahmaputra River, which supplies around 30 percent of India’s fresh water and about 44 ...

As an example, environmental expert Naseer Memon, based in Islamabad, informed Al Jazeera that, “…between 1976 and 1998, the average flow [of the eastern rivers of the Indus Basin] was 9.35 million ...