Water Disputes

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding construction of a railway bridge on the flood plains of river Ganga, Uttar Pradesh, 07/03/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bharatiya Kisan Union Purwa through its Secretary Vs Union of India Ministry of Jal Shakti & Others dated 07/03/2025. The grievance of the applicant is that railway bridge between Daraganj and Jhunsi is being constructed on the flood plains of …

A dispute in the Krishna basin

Faced with a barrage of criticism from the Opposition that it has failed to stop Andhra Pradesh from going ahead with the construction of "unauthorised" irrigation projects in the Krishna and Godavari river basins, the Karnataka government is yet to decide which of the two options it must pursue: approach …

Andhra Pradesh's case

Andhra Pradesh is in a hurry to complete 16 irrigation projects on the Krishna in an attempt to turn a clause in the Tribunal Award in its favour. Andhra Pradesh is gearing up to complete 16 irrigation projects, including five ongoing ones, on the Krishna river within the next three …

Protest and politics

Andhra Pradesh's response to the Paragodu project has been multi-pronged - when the government takes the issue to the Centre and the Supreme Court, the political parties adopt the agitational approach. Andhra Pradesh views the Paragodu dam project as yet another attempt by Karnataka to deprive it, the lower riparian …

Water: Charting a course for the future II

Water has suddenly become a favoured subject for seminars and conferences all over the world. A common trend in most of the discussions is to proceed from projections of demand to supply-side solutions in the form of ‘water resource development’ projects; estimate the massive investment funds needed; take note of …

Political conflict in Bangladesh

Ever since the inception of Bangladesh in 1972 its politics have been featured by several types of seemingly endemic conflict, some of which have been associated with either periodic outbursts of violence or prolonged relatively low-key armed confrontations. The objective of the present study is that of placing the different …

Treaty to resolve pending boundary differences and maintain the Rio Grande and Colorado river as the international boundary between the United States of America and …

Treaty to resolve pending boundary differences and maintain the Rio Grande and Colorado river as the international boundary between the United States of America and Mexico.

Why The Cauvery Divides People

From Mysore Road to Karnataka Sangh in Delhi, Agenda tries to understand why a legal dispute shuts down life in Bengaluru. http://www.ndtv.com/video/shows/agenda/why-the-cauvery-divides-people-431023

Indus Water Treaty 1960

At the time of independence, the boundary line between the two newly created independent countries i.e. Pakistan and India was drawn right across the Indus Basin, leaving Pakistan as the lower riparian. Moreover, two important irrigation head works, one at Madhopur on Ravi River and the other at Ferozepur on …

United Arab Republic and Sudan Agreement (With Annexes) For The Full Utilization of the Nile Waters Signed at Cairo, on 8 November 1959; in force …

As the River Nile needs projects, for its full control and for increasing its yield for the full utilization of its waters by the Republic of the Sudan and the United Arab Republic on technical working arrangements other than those now applied. And as these works require for their execution …

The Inter-State Water Disputes Act, 1956

The act provides for adjudication of disputes relating to waters of inter-state rivers and river valleys.

Utilization of waters of the Colorado and the Tijuana rivers and of the Rio Grande: treaty between the United States of America and Mexico

Whereas treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers, and of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) from Fort Quitman, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico, was signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries in Washington …

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