The Kishenganga Final Award: Is the Indus Waters Treaty at the Crossroads?
The Court of Arbitration constituted under the Indus Waters Treaty has in its Final Award held that India does have a right to execute the Kishenganga Hydroelectric Project. But it has simultaneously decreed that India should maintain a minimum flow downstream, and more important, it should not - in...
Veröffentlicht in: | Economic and Political Weekly. - Sameeksha Trust, 1966. - 49(2014), 7, Seite 10-12 |
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Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
Sprache: | English |
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Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Economic and Political Weekly |
Schlagworte: | Law Physical sciences Applied sciences Political science Environmental studies Biological sciences |
Zusammenfassung: | The Court of Arbitration constituted under the Indus Waters Treaty has in its Final Award held that India does have a right to execute the Kishenganga Hydroelectric Project. But it has simultaneously decreed that India should maintain a minimum flow downstream, and more important, it should not - in this and all future iwt projects - use the "drawdown flushing" technique to deal with sedimentation. |
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ISSN: | 23498846 |