What was the canal water dispute 4 marks?

Answer 1

Ferozpur, which had the headworks of all the rivers in Pakistan, was given to India, but India agreed not to interfere in the water supply. On 1st April 1948, India stopped all the water coming into Pakistan due to which crops could not be irrigated. In May 1948, a temporary treaty was signed, according to which India would resume water supply in return for a sum of money. However, the water supply was still interfered with by India in the 1950s. In 1960, the Indus Water Treaty was signed, with the help of the World Bank, according to which Indus, Chenab and Jhelum were given to Pakistan while Ravi, Bias and Sutlej, were given to India.

Answer 2

Partition of sub-continent cut across many rivers and canals. So at this time when every thing was being separated this was also an issues raised by Muslims as in the main headwords most of which laid in Punjab was in India. On this the new country demanded for the rivers as west Pakistan was fertile but, has hot and dry climate so is mainly depended on irrigation of series from canals. On this base Pakistan and India both argued, and later on indus water treaty was sighned.