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Is time up for the Indus Water Treaty? India has expectedly backtracked from its recent pledge to continue deliberations on Islamabad’s objection to its recent projects on the rivers allocated as per the Indus Water Treaty (IWT). Since Delhi is not willing to accept World Bank’s arbitration, thus the April meeting in Washington DC is improbable. The Indian government took only a couple of days to renege from its vow given in Islamabad and Lahore this week. Last September when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi threatened to scrap the IWT, Pakistan stated that such a move would tantamount to a ‘declaration of war’. On April 1, 1948, Delhi halted the flow of water from the canals on its side. By early May, it had signed the Inter-Dominion Agreement with Pakistan, allowing the continuation of water supplies for irrigation purposes until the newly formed country developed alternative water resources. Delhi blocked the water supply to Pakistan to assert its military control of Jammu...

Indus Water Treaty: 10 things to know about Indus Water Treaty: ·        The Indus Waters Treaty was signed on September 19, 1960 by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan's President Ayub Khan. ·        It was brokered by the World Bank. ·        The treaty administers how river Indus and its tributaries that flow in both the countries will be utilised. ·        According to the treaty, Beas, Ravi and Sutlej are to be governed by India, while, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum are to be taken care by Pakistan. ·        However, since Indus flows from India, the country is allowed to use 20 per cent of its water for irrigation, power generation and transport purposes. ·        A Permanent Indus Commission was set up as a bilateral commission to implement and manage the Treaty. The Commissi...

Balancing Canal depth Balancing Canal depth: "Balancing  canal  depth  comes when the canal is in partially embankment and partially in cutting.It is the  depth  of the canal(H) which gives equal amount of filling(i.e earth required for formation of Banks) and cutting(i.e earth from digging). " Balancing canal depth comes when the canal is in partially embankment and partially in cutting.It is the depth of the canal(H) which gives equal amount of filling(i.e earth required for formation of Banks) and cutting(i.e earth from digging). For a given cross-section of a canal, it has only one balancing depth. For this depth the canal sectional will be economical. B= Bed width. b1,b2= width of embankment of left and right side respectively. d= excavation depth. h= embankment height. H=height of embankment from the bed of the canal.     X- sectional area in cutting =Bd+sd 2       X- sectional area in...