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Punjab will become desert, if robbery of its river waters continues unabated: Sukhbir

Chandigarh, Jul 16 (UNI) Shiromani Akal Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday said Punjab does not have a single drop of water to spare from its rivers for other states and in fact, the state faces the horrendous spectre of turning into a desert in the next few years, if the broad daylight robbery of its waters continues unabated.
"Over two-third of its blocks are already in the red zone, where the water level has dropped frighteningly low,” Mr Badal said, while speaking to newspersons, after a meeting of the SAD Core Committee here.
He said that legally, constitutionally and historically, Punjab has exclusive, total and inalienable right over the waters of its rivers. Any authority set up to look into the optimisation of river water usage must first of all address the issue of constitutional ownership through the nationally and internationally accepted Riparian Principle, he said.

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