CLIMATE PROOFING INDUS WATER TREATY: SYNERGISTIC INTEGRATION OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATERS' CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PRACTICES.

Understanding potential impacts of climate change on trans-boundary water resources is of paramount significance for devising adaptation strategies. Climate change adaptation strategies devised after due deliberations, promise dividends in socio-political, economic and environmental domains. Indus Water Treaty (IWT) signed in 1960 is internationally considered a successful mechanism for regulating water resources between Pakistan and India. At that time, climate change due to its late realization was not incorporated in it. As the climate change phenomenon became known globally, the scarcity of water also started getting pronounced thus leading both the countries towards a conflicting situation. While the long conflict between India and Pakistan has attracted extensive interest amongst the scholars, approaches related to climate proofing IWT have largely remained ignored in the academic literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]