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ABSTRACT
The Indo-Pak sub-continent was partitioned in August 1947, resulting in the appearance of two independent sovereign countries, Pakistan and India, on the world map. The Indus Basin Irrigation System that irrigated some 37 million acres of land was conceived originally as a unified system and considered one of the most extensive and highly developed irrigation systems of the world. It was divided between India and Pakistan without regard to irrigation boundaries. This resulted in creation of the international water dispute in April J948, when India cut off the flow of water in canals that crossed the Indo-Pakistan boundary. After protracted negotiations of more than a decade under the good offices of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, both the Government of pakistan and Government of India, desirous of attaining the most complete and satisfactory utilization of the waters of the Indus System of rivers, finally resolved to conclude the Indus Waters Treaty 1960 setting out, inter alia, for sharing the waters of the Indus System between India and Pakistan. This article discusses the institutional mechanisms established by the treaty which are utilized by the two countries in dealing with water and related resource manage ment issues.