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The poor water quality in India’s most sacred rivers has become a political issue as awareness and anger have grown over lack of progress to reduce levels of human and industrial waste in the ...

It is an agreement between India and Pakistan that specifies how the waters of six rivers and their tributaries, called the Indus waters, will be used by the two countries.

India has not yet made full use of the waters of the eastern rivers, according to government documents. It has not built enough reservoirs and canals to divert water flows there, analysts said.