Hostile water motives |
INDIA’S latest move to advance the Chenab-Beas Link Tunnel Project and its plan to flush silt from the Salal Dam reservoir clearly exposes the real motive behind its illegal, unilateral suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty. New Delhi plans to divert about 1.9 MAF of water annually from the Chenab basin to the Beas basin. The project violates both the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, as well as principles reflected in the UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. Likewise, Indian plans to flush silt from the reservoir of the Salal Dam would provide India with a degree of........