Pakistan-India Water Conflict: A Causal Analysis

Abstract

This exploratory research aims to explore and access the factors which are involved in Pakistan’s water conflict with India and how they are challenging the political existence of Pakistan. As human survival and economic progression are profoundly and directly linked with its accessibility and usability of it. Water is becoming a source of growing distress among nations around the globe. But in this research paper, the water conflict discussed is between the two neighboring nuclear-armed nations (India and Pakistan) with fraught relationships, who have fought three wars, and deeply doubt each other. Both the countries signed a trilateral water treaty with the collaboration of the World Bank in 1961. Though the treaty is usually presented among the few successful examples of water treaties in the world, it is facing threats for the last two decades. This study recommends that government must consider the warning issued by the UN in 2013 regarding the water crisis, Pakistan will face in the coming decade. Government must focus on the timely completion of mega dams and must take all necessary steps required to minimize the domestic and commercial water loses on war footings.