India’s Indus water plans pose threat to Himalayan tribes

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Calving, India: Only a few hundred kilometers southeast of occupied Kashmir, a new frontier of water distribution is emerging in India’s dispute with Pakistan as it plans a fleet of hydroelectric plants, which threatens the Himalayan ecosystem and its community.

Although a ceasefire in May brought the countries back from the brink of war, the tension is growing at another flashpoint: the Indus Basin water.

The next day after the Pahalgam attack, India announced that it would “put the Indus Waters Treaty” in a “misconduct, a Cold War period that controls the river systems, which has a year -long flow of water in the world of water in the world, with a year -long flow of water in the world.” The midst of the wars have been avoided even fully prepared.

But this suspension has given rise to uncertainty on the destiny of the agreement and has opened the door to India to advance energy development with the rivers of the Himalayan mountains.

These waterways, which were controlled to Pakistan, were irrigated in the flow of Pakistani fields and under this agreement, the Indian exploitation was largely far away.

At home in India, the possibility of accelerating hydropower projects has also given rise to alarm.

Tribal communities in the valleys of Lahal and Speedy in the Himachal Pradesh state of northern India are feared that eliminating rivers can eliminate the life of generation from generation to generation.

Supporters of the project say that Indus Basin can provide a clean energy source of clean energy and help meet the world’s demand for energy storage.

The Himachal Pradesh government had already announced in January that plans for the construction of 22 new hydroelectric power projects have been planned, including Lahore Spiti in five districts of 828 MW.

According to the plan, the river Chenab, which is formed by headwaters in Lahaul Special, will be seen as the largest part of it, which has a total of 595 MW in nine hydropower plants, according to the plan.

India can also create four reserves on Chenab and Jhelum rivers. Policy experts see India’s strategy as a bid to overcome the Himalayan waterways.

The suspension of the Indus Waters Agreement in New Delhi, Srinivas Chowkula, said that India “allows India to follow its development interests on Western rivers.”

He said, “Now India has the time and the means of making infrastructure to collect irritability.”

SUCH of people living in Lahol and Special, such political calculations can threaten their livelihoods and traditions.

These include the Buddhist people and the Swangla tribe, whose languages and cultures are tied to Tibet. Most acquisitions of the year are isolated by the passage of ice, these communities cultivate uneven mountain slopes during the hot months.

Lahaul-Special Ekti Manch, a collective advocate for tribal and environmental rights, has identified at least 14 major dam projects that are currently proposed with Chenab and its assistants. Riggel Harpa, a senior member of the collective, said the pressure for hydropower was a landscape and an existential threat to those who were raised.

“We do not know what the result of Pakistan will result, but it is destroying our land and will not leave us,” said Harpa, who lives in Kavang village, collided between snowy rivers in a very populous spectacular village.

India’s glaciers are an important part of the Himalayan valleys and is the home of an ecosystem that is already showing a sign of tension from climate change.

Glaciers are rapidly retreating, and Springs that have long irrigated smal-scale, monocrop agriculture are drying up. Here most of the households depend on the same crop of potatoes or peas, which is fed by community -administered networks. Former Hamachal Pradesh’s former agriculture minister Rimlal Markand said that the traditional system was designed for water-scale landscape and may not be able to cope with the dam building, which includes recruited rivers, Aquafar, and changed microscopic microscopes.

He said, “Any such progress will clear the identity of Laul and Speedy.”

Goman Singh, who is a reservoir working with the lower -level Himalayan Nety Abian group in the Mandi town, has warned that Chenab and Chandrabhaga rivers are already at risk of flooding (gloves) of the icy lake and is now being treated as an empty slate for mega infrastructure.

During the failure of a glofing ice dam, the release of molten water that can relieve destructive floods.

Singh said, “In the race to emphasize nationalism by controlling water, India is accelerating construction in the country’s highest climate zone.”

“When you block and dams these natural systems, you are asking for more land sliding, flooding and ultimately falling.” The Thomson Writers Foundation also contacted the Himachal Pradesh government as well as the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and the Secretary of Power in New Delhi, but did not receive a reaction.

Harpa, who has launched a campaign against dam projects in the region since 2007, said he was feared not only environmental degradation but also cultural eradication. “These projects will bring out a wave of foreign and trade activity into a region that has limited ability to absorb them,” he said.

“Arrival will put pressure on our resources, increase land prices and destroy our culture. Who is we are – our customs, our relationship with the land – will gradually end.”