{"id":3902,"date":"2025-04-24T01:55:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:35:15","slug":"what-is-the-indus-water-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-indus-water-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Indus Water Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Indus Water Treaty Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, India suspended the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/indus-water-treaty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Indus Water Treaty<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(IWT) following a deadly militant attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, which killed 26 civilians.<\/p>\n<h2>About Indus Water Treaty<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indus Waters Treaty was signed between India and Pakistan on September 19, 1960, with the World Bank acting as a mediator.<\/li>\n<li>The treaty was designed to ensure cooperation and information-sharing between the two countries regarding water use from the Indus River system, which includes six rivers: Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej.<\/li>\n<li>The treaty allocated the three western rivers\u2014Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab\u2014to Pakistan for unrestricted use, while India retained the three eastern rivers\u2014Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej\u2014for its exclusive use.<\/li>\n<li>India was allowed limited, non-consumptive uses of the western rivers for domestic, agricultural, and hydroelectric purposes, under strict conditions.<\/li>\n<li>This arrangement meant that around 80% of the total water volume was granted to Pakistan, while India received the remaining 20%.<\/li>\n<li>To manage the treaty\u2019s implementation, both nations agreed to establish a Permanent Indus Commission (PIC), which is required to meet annually to discuss technical matters and facilitate data exchange.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstoday.in\/india\/story\/indus-waters-treaty-freeze-indias-dam-push-could-dry-out-pakistans-crops-what-happens-next-473384-2025-04-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indus Water Treaty (IWT) was signed between India and Pakistan regulating the use and distribution of the Indus River system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[259,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-3902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-indus-water-treaty","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}