The India-Pakistan border is underlain by the Indus River plain aquifer, a 560,000-km2 confined- ... more The India-Pakistan border is underlain by the Indus River plain aquifer, a 560,000-km2 confined- to the semi-confined porous alluvial formation. Information collected by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (“GRACE”) satellite mission between August 2002 and October 2008, of changes in the territorial water storage in the Indian states of Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, proved that the water withdrawals for irrigation and other uses were heavily depleting the groundwater reserves of these regions. Time-lapse images of the information collected indicated that groundwater extraction in India might be affecting groundwater in Pakistan. The present study explores the issue further particularly focusing the legal dimensions.
However, the purpose of this paper is not to “prepare a case” for Pakistan but to prepare a case for transboundary cooperation on groundwater based on an understanding of the existing legal systems in India and Pakistan, principles of international law and shared and reliable information about the characteristics in the Indus River Plain Aquifer.
The India-Pakistan border is underlain by the Indus River plain aquifer, a 560,000-km2 confined- ... more The India-Pakistan border is underlain by the Indus River plain aquifer, a 560,000-km2 confined- to the semi-confined porous alluvial formation. Information collected by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (“GRACE”) satellite mission between August 2002 and October 2008, of changes in the territorial water storage in the Indian states of Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, proved that the water withdrawals for irrigation and other uses were heavily depleting the groundwater reserves of these regions. Time-lapse images of the information collected indicated that groundwater extraction in India might be affecting groundwater in Pakistan. The present study explores the issue further particularly focusing the legal dimensions.
However, the purpose of this paper is not to “prepare a case” for Pakistan but to prepare a case for transboundary cooperation on groundwater based on an understanding of the existing legal systems in India and Pakistan, principles of international law and shared and reliable information about the characteristics in the Indus River Plain Aquifer.
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However, the purpose of this paper is not to “prepare a case” for Pakistan but to prepare a case for transboundary cooperation on groundwater based on an understanding of the existing legal systems in India and Pakistan, principles of international law and shared and reliable information about the characteristics in the Indus River Plain Aquifer.
However, the purpose of this paper is not to “prepare a case” for Pakistan but to prepare a case for transboundary cooperation on groundwater based on an understanding of the existing legal systems in India and Pakistan, principles of international law and shared and reliable information about the characteristics in the Indus River Plain Aquifer.