India said it is studying the final award of the international court of arbitration on Indo-Pak dispute on Kishenganga hydro project in Jammu and Kashmir in which New Delhi has been asked to maintain certain flow of water in the river all the time. The International Court of Arbitration recently has allowed India to go ahead with construction of the Kishanganga dam in Jammu and Kashmir, over which Pakistan has raised objections. But the court upheld that India has the right to divert waters of western rivers, in a non-consumptive manner, for optimal generation of power.

The present final award specifies the amount of nine cumecs (cubic meters per second) of natural flow of water must be maintained in the Kishenganga river at all times to maintain the environment downstream. This is much lower than the 100 cumecs of natural flow that Pakistan wanted to maintain.