A History of Data Practices in the Water Sciences
In 1960 Pakistan and India signed the Indus Waters Treaty, which had been brokered by the World Bank to equitably redistribute waters of the Indus River and its tributaries between the two countries. The water dispute had its roots in the Partition of 1947 which had delimited India and Pakistan along religious lines, with little …
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1964 was an exciting time for hydrology. Preparations for the International Hydrological Decade (1965-1974) were underway at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris and in countries worldwide, in the hope of creating a truly international scientific cooperation effort in the field of hydrology. Water, advocates of the IHD believed, was something all countries—developed and developing—could get behind. …
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