India and Pakistan have managed to maintain a delicate balance over one of their most crucial and contentious shared resources — water. Despite ongoing tensions and several wars, the two nations have largely abided by the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT),

Under the Indus Water Treaty, India was granted unrestricted access to the water from the ‘Eastern Rivers’, and Pakistan retained rights to that from the ‘Western Rivers'.

India has officially sought a review of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), a water-sharing agreement established in 1960 with Pakistan and facilitated by the World Bank.