Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his Independence Day address in New Delhi on 15 August to denounce the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty as "unjust and one-sided," asserting that India has full rights over the rivers that originate within its borders. "Blood and water will not flow together," he said, adding that the waters irrigating “the fields of our enemies” should instead serve Indian farmers. Modi’s remarks signal that New Delhi may move to curb or reroute flows currently guaranteed to Pakistan under the World Bank-brokered accord, heightening tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. The government has not yet announced specific measures, but the prime minister’s comments mark India’s strongest public challenge to the treaty to date.