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Tensions over Kashmir and a warming planet have placed the Indus Waters Treaty on life support

  • Written by Fazlul Haq, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University
imageThe Indus River Valley in the cold desert of Ladakh, India.Pallava Bagla/Getty Images

In 1995, World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin warned that whereas the conflicts of the previous 100 years had been over oil, “the wars of the next century will be fought over water.”

Thirty years on, that prediction is being tested in one of the...

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