ODDS OVER SHRINKING INDUS RIVER- PAKISTAN

Nearly 30% of the world's cotton supply comes from India and Pakistan, much of that from the Indus River Valley, western Himalaya. The Indus River, which begins in Indian-controlled Kashmir and flows through Pakistan on its way to the sea, is Pakistan's primary freshwater source—on which 90% of its agriculture depends—and a critical outlet of hydropower generation for both countries. The Indus is dependent on glacial melting for as much as half of its flow. So its fate is uniquely tied to the health of the Himalayas. But dwindling river flows will be harder to share as the populations in both countries grow and the per-capita water supply plummets.

October 11

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/111012-india-pakistan-indus-river-water/?source=link_tw20111012news-indus