India-Pakistan Water Treaty Suspended Despite Ceasefire Agreement

Around 80% of Pakistan's agriculture and the third of its hydropower depends on the water from the Indus Basin region,

says Bharadwaj

Currently, India does not have the infrastructure capacity to really store excess water, which is what they'd be required to do if they're kind of trying to cut away from letting this water reach Pakistan,

says Bharadwaj

There's been quite a lot of difficulty for local populations to have access to water on a consistent basis,

says Bhargabi Bharadwaj, research associate at the Environment and Society Center at Chatham House

The problem starts on day one,

says Hassaan Khan, assistant professor of urban and environmental policy at Tufts University

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The regions that now make up most of Pakistan as part of the Indus Basin, they're alluvial plains, so they're very fertile, but typically don't have that much rainfall,

says Daniel Haines, associate professor in the history of risk and disaster at University College London whose research focuses on South Asia

Stopping the flow isn’t really possible,

says Khan

Cities now are increasingly water stressed, because water supply hasn't kept up with the increase in population,

says Khan

This isn’t the first time this has happened,

she says