Pakistan Water Shortage
'Pakistan may face 37 percent water shortage during Kharif season: Reports
Pakistan is likely to face about 37 percent water shortage during the Kharif cropping season, confirmed a water regulator.
This could be potentially damaging for key cash crops like cotton, whose output has already slumped to multi-decade lows, reports Dawn News.
As a result, a meeting of the advisory committee of the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) on Thursday decided with a consensus to continue with a three-tier formula for distributing water shares among the provinces, as currently in practice.
The meeting — presided over by Asjad Imtiaz Ali, Irsa’s chairman and federal member — concluded that Punjab and Sindh would face a 27pc water shortage in the early Kharif and 10pc in the late Kharif season.
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