of available water and damages ecosystems.
present in the meeting. In this review India
In addition, rapid change to inappropriate
weighs options to give a proper reply to
land use is often resulting in erosion in
Pakistan in the wake of the Uri attack that
upstream areas, flooding in downstream
took lives of 18 soldiers. On 27th Sept. 2016
areas, and siltation in the river bed &
Pakistan foreign policy chief Sartaj Aziz
reservoir.
said against the backdrop of New Delhi’s
The impact of climate change is severe to us
decision to suspend water talks, that if India
because its impact on global hydrologic
revokes the Indus Waters Treaty, which
cycle is profound. The time has come to
would be tantamount to an “act of war”, and
treat water as an object of nourishment of
Pakistan can approach the UN and the
life by all human being. It cannot be treated
International Court of Justice.
as a commodity to satisfy insatiable human
A jittery Pakistan sent high level delegation
greed. National water policy must be
led by the attorney general of Pakistan,
formulated keeping in mind the same.
Ashtar Ausaf Ali to the World Bank
headquarters in Washington to discuss treaty
NEWS:Indus Water Dispute with Pakistan
that was brokered by the organization to
after Uri attack
stop India from divert water from Indus
The Uri attack has led India to find various
river system.
options to give Pakistan an appropriate
This treaty is vital for Pakistan’s water
lesson. The 56 years old Indus water treaty
supply on which Pakistan’s agriculture and
between India and Pakistan is one such tool
economy is surviving, diversion of water
which India wants to revisit so that Pakistan
will have severe effect on Pakistan.
cannot get maximum benefit from the treaty
Ganga polluted with heavy metals and
and provide support to the terrorists. Prime
pesticides
Minister Modi warned Pakistan, said “Blood
According to a recent report by the
and water cannot flow together”.
Prime
CPCB on contamination of Ganga, the
Minister Narendra Modi on 26 Sept. 2016
river water has the presence of bacterial
chaired a meeting to review the Indus Water
contamination
Treaty with Pakistan, National Security
pollutants
th
Adviser Ajit Doval, Foreign Secretary
S.
Jaishankar,
the
Water
Resources
Secretary, and senior PMO officials were
like
besides
traces
of
heavy
metals
and
pesticides. There are nearly 1072 highly
polluting industries between Hardwar
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