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The average flows in western rivers at their river inflow measurement (RIM) stations were 135.6 million acre feet (MAF) ...

The decades-old Indus Waters Treaty faces its gravest challenge as India suspends it, prompting Pakistan to warn of war.

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

The treaty allocated the three eastern rivers – the Ravi, Beas and Sutlej – of the Indus basin to India, while 80% of the three western ones – the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab – to Pakistan.

Similarly, India did not develop storage capacity in the Jhelum River because it was one of the western rivers of the Indus basin where Pakistan was allowed unrestricted use.

The project was halted in 1987 due to pressure from Pakistan, which cited various clauses of the IWT that restrict any storage along the Jhelum river, a part of the Indus basin.

A Pakistan report indicates a 13.3 per cent year-on-year shortfall in water drawn from the Indus River System - and supplied to already water-starved farms in the Punjab province - after India halting ...

They include the Bursar project (800 MW) on the Marusudar river within the Indus basin. Also, the Uri Stage II (260 MW) on the Jhelum commissioned in 2013-14 is yet to realise its full potential.

All Pakistan’s Indus Basin reservoirs combined provide water storage equivalent to less than 10 percent of the river’s annual flows, far below storage capacities in other countries and regions ...