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Water is universally acknowledged as the elixir of life. Its importance as a sustainer of life can be gauged by the fact that all extra-terrestrial explorations focus on searching for water as a precursor for life. Water is also a very unique resource because it can neither be replaced, substituted or be traded like commodities. As it stands today, water may slowly replace energy as one of the reasons why future conflicts may take place. Burgeoning population, climate change and pollution have led to the securitization of water and resource control is slowly emerging as an effective tool as part of Comprehensive National Power for realizing geo-strategic aims. The Book delves in-depth into the history and evolution of hydro-relations between India and Pakistan from pre-partition days till date including the momentous signing of the Indus Waters Treaty 1960. It provides a fascinating insight into how the hydro-relations have evolved and sustained in spite of three wars and the Pakistani continued proclivity of using terrorism as an instrument of its state policy and the way forward.

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Col Anurag Jyoti was commissioned into the Armoured Corps in June 1991. A Graduate from the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, the Officer has held varied staff, command and instructional appointments. He has had two tenures in active Counter Insurgency Areas in the North East as also tenure as a Directing Staff at Senior Command Wing, Army War College, Mhow. The Officer has been the Brigade General Staff Officer Grade -1 of an Armoured Brigade in a Strike Corps and commanded an Armoured Regiment as part of a Pivot Corps, both along the Western Front. He has also been a Senior Research Fellow at the United Service Institution of India, New Delhi, where he was engaged in research on the use of water as a geo-political tool in South Asia, a topic which had piqued his interest while serving over the years in the plains of Punjab and J&K. He is presently commanding a Provost Unit in the Eastern Theatre and is simultaneously pursuing a doctorate in Defence and Strategic Studies from a University in Noida.

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