India, April 28 -- In 1995, World Bank vice president Ismail Serageldin warned that "wars of the next century will be fought over water." Thirty years later, his prediction has almost come true in one of the world's most volatile region - Kashmir.

On April 24, 2025, India announced that it would downgrade diplomatic ties with Pakistan over an attack by terrorists in Pahalgam in Kashmir that killed 26 tourists and suspended the Indus Waters Treaty - a decades-old agreement that allowed both countries to share water use from the rivers that flow from India into Pakistan.

Pakistan has promised reciprocal moves and warned that any disruption to its water supply would be considered "an act of war." Pakistan has decided to suspend the Simla a...