- Water shortage in Pakistan if Indus river water is stopped.
- Big danger to agriculture
- Australia’s report on the Indus Waters Agreement
Indus Waters Treaty: After the Pahalgam terror attack, India suspended the “Indus River Treaty”. Pakistan has threatened to stop the flow of the Indus River as an act of war. Meanwhile, in a recent report published by the Institute for Economics and Peace of Australia, if the waters of the Indus River are stopped, Pakistan will suffer a serious blow. Ecological Threat Report-2025 states that Pakistan faces the risk of severe water scarcity.
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It claims that termination of the Indus Waters Treaty would give India the ability to control the westward flow of the Indus and its tributaries into Pakistan. This development is a huge setback for Pakistan as 80 percent of Pakistan’s agriculture depends on the Indus river system. Even small disruptions at critical times would damage Pakistan’s agriculture, she said, adding that Pakistan has no storage space to store water. The report highlighted that the sister country’s own dam capacity holds the flow of the Indus for only about 30 days.
Disruption of the Indus flows would threaten Pakistan’s food security and subsequently national survival, the report said. If India actually reduces the flow of the Indus, densely populated areas of Pakistan will face severe water shortages. India says that existing infrastructure is capable of stemming rivers, and even minor disruptions can disrupt Pakistan’s agricultural sector.