Sindh Water Shortage
Pakistan: SCA urges govt to declare Sindh as ‘calamity-hit’ due to water shortage
Quetta, Pakistan: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) in Pakistan has expressed deep concern over the acute water shortage faced by the area during the ongoing summer season.
The SCA has urged the government to declare the province ‘calamity-hit’.
A meeting of SCA, held under the chairmanship of Miran Mohammad Shah on Sunday, also demanded that loans of small farmers having up to 16 acres be waived, reports Dawn News.
During the meeting, it was stressed that an inquiry should be conducted into a shortfall of 13,000 cusecs flows between Taunsa and Guddu.
The SCA meeting noted that water shortage in Sindh’s barrages was recorded at 60 percent which was affecting millions of acres of their command area. It urged the Federal Minister for Water Resources Syed Khursheed Shah to release 100,000 cusecs downstream Chashma and ensure storing of 5MAF (million acre feet) in both dams for next year’s Kharif sowing in Sindh, reports The Dawn.
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