Exclusive: India weighs plan to slash Pakistan water supply with new Indus river project By Sarita Chaganti Singh , Krishna N. Das , Aftab Ahmed , Charlotte Greenfield and Ariba Shahid May 16 ...

Map of the Indus River basin with tributaries labeled. Yellow regions are non-contributing parts of the watershed (e.g. the Thar Desert). [Photo by Keenan Pepper / CC BY-SA 4.0] The IWT—brokered ...

Beginnings of a River. The Indus is an antecedent river, which means it has existed for over 50 million years, since the Indian plate first collided with Asia and gave rise to the Himalayas.

Q2: How vulnerable is Pakistan? A2: Pakistan depends critically on the Indus.Over three-quarters of the country’s annually available renewable water resources come from outside its borders, almost ...

Graphic: Map illustrating the Indus River system with its major rivers highlighted in blue, showing their geographical locations across the India-Pakistan region. WHAT COULD THE SUSPENSION CHANGE?

The Indus River has supported life for thousands of years since the Harappan civilization, which flourished around 2600 to 1900 B.C.E. in what is now Pakistan and northwest India.