Kashmir and Water: Conflict and Cooperation

Sridhar, Seema

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Title

Kashmir and Water: Conflict and Cooperation

Author(s)

Sridhar, Seema

Issue Date

2008

Keyword(s)

• Jammu and Kashmir -- Conflict
• Jammu and Kashmir -- Policy -- Water

Abstract

The history of water sharing between India and Pakistan has been marked by exceptional cooperation and intermittent conflicts over the interpretation of the water sharing treaty that forms the basis for this cooperation. The Tulbul Navigation Project and the Baglihar, Kishanganga, and Salal hydroelectric power projects are a few contentious issues between the two countries revolving around the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT). The incongruities in interpretations of the IWT have been attributed to political motives, rather than differences over technical and engineering aspects of water management. This article examines key areas of contention between India and Pakistan, and presents cooperation on water issues as a potential conflict management tool.

Publisher

Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Swords and Ploughshares, winter 2007-8

ISSN

1046-7734

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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