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“Looking beyond the bad monsoon weather responsible for current disastrous flooding, he says glacial melting will dry up rivers crossing Indian-controlled Kashmir on their way to Pakistan, governed by an old treaty that now seems to the great advantage of Pakistan’s giant rival:
… Roll the tape forward 20 years: the glacial melt-water is coming to an end, and the total flow of the Indus system is down by half. But almost all of the loss is in Pakistan’s three rivers, since the smaller Indian three do not depend heavily on glaciers.
So India is still getting as much water as ever from the eastern three rivers, and it is still taking its full treaty allocation of water from two of Pakistan’s rivers, although they do depend on glacial melt-water and now have far less water in them. As a result, India’s total share of the Indus waters rises sharply (and quite legally) just as Pakistanis start to starve.”
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