The second issue which Pakistan is concerned about is the issue of water. India has been constructing dams on the rivers which start on its territory and which Pakistan fears will be used to stop water to its agriculture land because Pakistan is on the lower side of the rivers. Even if Pakistan’s concerns are legitimate due to its suspicions between the two countries, it came to late to start acknowledging the dam building by India. Due to the hatred of India in Pakistan (due to years of indoctrination of Anti-India materials in its school books) there has been increased chorus of extremists’ propaganda of waging war on India to gets its share of water.
The United States on the other side does not want to get involved in regional disputes regarding water since the onus will be on Pakistan to prove that India is indeed stealing water. But also due to a lack of reasoning on the Pakistan’s side, this matter is being drummed up as another plot of India to destroy Pakistan’s agricultural based economy.But Pakistan on its part has failed to build any significant dam during the past 30 years or so and its storage capacity for capturing rain water is very low. Further more there is too much wastage of water on the part of people of Pakistan, where the government has been either too slow or just ignoring the problem of global warming and not educating or informing people that water is a scarce resource and should not be wasted. Unless Pakistan puts its own house in order, nobody else can fix their problems of water scarcity.
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