IN April last year, India suspended the decades-old Indus Waters Treaty, which contains no provision allowing it to be held in abeyance unilaterally. In doing so, New Delhi also breached the broader principles of international law governing shared water resources. Last June, the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled against the suspension, saying that it went against the letter of the treaty. The same court ruled last month on India’s hydropower projects at Ratle and Kishenganga; it found that India had been inflating storage capacity through engineering workarounds. While addressing a seminar recently, Deputy........

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