© Akhilesh Kumar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India would put to use its share of water from the rivers flowing to Pakistan and ensure that every single drop is used for country's farmer. The work on this had started.
Mr. Modi, who was addressing an election rally at Charkhi Dadri in Haryana, said the river waters that rightfully belonged to India had been flowing to Pakistan for the last 70 years. It would not happen any more.
"For the last 70 years, the waters that belonged to India and farmers of Haryana were going to Pakistan. Modi will stop it and bring it to your households," he said.
"This water belongs to farmers of Haryana, Rajasthan and the country and we will get it.. Work towards realisation of this has been started and I am committed towards it. Modi will fight your battle," he asserted.
Likewise, I would guess he had an unwritten instruction to place borders on the FAR side of any mountain range /continental divides so that in case water became more valuable than it then was considered, then they could - by their border-drawing - run ducts through the mountains under.over such divides and take ALL the water that would normally go that 'other' side of the divide.
US Geography example. Look at a map of the Colorado River and realize that it carved the ENTIRE Gulf of California! (GOC) One of the Conquistadors SAILED TO LAS VEGAS!!!
I once stopped (around 1984) to take a whiz at where I-8 crosses the mighty Colorado near/in Yuma AZ. (~150 MILES South of L.V. & 50 N of the tip of the GOC.
It had no flow - like some frat had a 75th year reunion about a quarter mile upstream. It is REALLY there, simply a drainage ditch. The US TAKES ALL OF IT!
Riparian rights? Mexico don't need no stinkin' riparian rights!
R.C.