For over six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960 stood as a global benchmark for transboundary water governance. It survived three major wars, numerous border skirmishes, and decades of diplomatic frost. However, a series of recent unilateral actions by India, ranging from legal suspensions to massive upstream infrastructure expansion, has pushed the treaty […]
Indus Basin
FAO launches new water budgeting and productivity project in Indus Basin
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Punjab Agriculture Department, Punjab Irrigation Department, MNS University of Agriculture Multan, IHE Delft, and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), formally launched the Water Budgeting and Agricultural Water Productivity Project under FAO’s global WaPOR programme. The project aims to strengthen evidence-based water […]