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Comment: Indus water Treaty.

  • UPSC 1991
  • 20 marks
  • India and South Asia

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Partition gave India the headworks and Pakistan the canal lands of the world's largest contiguous irrigation system. When a standstill arrangement lapsed in April 1948, India briefly cut off supplies. In 1951 David E. Lilienthal proposed treating the basin as a single engineering unit, and the World Bank under Eugene R. Black took up the…

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