India started to work on two hydroelectric projects in Kashmir. After the attack in Kashmir, New Delhi suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty between the nuclear-armed rivals that supplies 80 percent of Pakistani farms.
A warning from Islamabad to international legal action that any attempt to stop or divert the flow of water belonging to Pakistan will be considered an act of war. On May 1st, the process of “reservoir flushing” was initiated to remove sediment. India’s biggest company carried out the process on the state-run NHPC, and authorities in the federal territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
This may not affect the supply now, but eventually it will if other projects launch similar efforts and there are more than half a dozen projects in the same region.
This hydropower project requires much that to force out sediments, which could cause a decline in output.
The power delivered by the 690-megawatt Salal project was below its capacity. Building these two projects required extensive back and forth with Pakistan, and the share of Pakistani water still consumed to be in worries. India’s water minister has promised that no drop of the Indus River’s water reaches Pakistan. India cannot stop water flows immediately, as it is only allowed to build hydropower plants without significant storage dams on the three rivers allocated to Pakistan, said the experts and government officials.
The retired head of India’s Central Water Commission, Kushvinder Vohra, said that now India can pursue the projects at free will and these concerns related to the size of water storage area at the Kishenganga and Ratel hydroelectric plants. In recent years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has been renegotiating the process, and in The Hague, the permanent Court of Arbitration made some changes to settle the archfoes.
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