In 1995, World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin warned that whereas the conflicts of the previous 100 years had been over oil, “the wars of the next century will be fought over water.”
Tensions over Kashmir and a warming planet have placed the Indus Waters Treaty on life support
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