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Pakistan Water Shortage

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IRSA says water shortage in Pakistan is worse than expected

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | May 15, 2022, at 03:54 am

#Pakistan #PakistanWaterShortage

Islamabad: Pakistan is battling an acute shortage of water for irrigation purposes amid the Kharif season which commenced on April 1 with the sowing of major crops, including cotton, sugarcane, rice and maize, media reports said on Saturday.

The acute shortage of water has now reached 38 percent.

The Indus River System Authority (IRSA), regulating and monitoring the distribution of water sources of the Indus River among all the four federating units, gave a presentation to the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Water Resources here on Thursday, reports The News International.

The authority said that the water shortage has now turned worse than the earlier projected shortage of 22 percent.

Presently, there is a water shortage of 38 percent, hitting hard the two major crop-producing provinces - Punjab and Sindh - and affecting the current crops sowing pattern, the newspaper reported.

Nawab Yousaf Talpur chaired the meeting and Federal Minister for Water Resources Khursheed Shah, Sindh’s Minister for Irrigation Jam Khan Shoro and other officials attended the meeting.

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