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Pakistan Heading Towards Becoming Water-Scarce Country: Minister
June 6th, 2022
Via Dawn, an article on Pakistan’s water crisis: Expressing concern over the ongoing global climate crisis, Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman on Sunday said Pakistan was set to become one of the first five water-scarce countries if no immediate action was taken. The country is particularly afflicted and the immediacy of climate change cannot […]
Read more »Pakistan: Water Crisis Looms Over Pindi and Islamabad
June 2nd, 2022
Via Dawn, a look at Pakistan’s growing water crisis: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Rawalpindi cantonment boards may have to start water rationing as water level in Khanpur Dam has dropped to just 24 feet above the dead level. An Official at the reservoir pointed out that there had been a massive decrease in […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Water Crisis
May 24th, 2022
Via Frontier Post, an article on Pakistan’s water crisis: Depleting surface and ground water resource has rung alarm bells for the policy makers with country touching the scarcity bench mark due to per capita water availability dwindling six times since independence. Absence of sufficient water storages, rising temperature and rampant wastage of irrigation water was […]
Read more »Decades On, Pakistan Is Still Seeking A Kabul River Agreement
May 6th, 2022
Via The Third Pole, an article on how the absence of a functioning government in upstream Afghanistan has hampered treaty efforts for the major Indus tributary: For decades, Pakistan has been seeking an agreement with Afghanistan on the Kabul River. But a treaty agreeing the management and allocation of water between the two countries remains […]
Read more »Can Indus Water Treaty be Renegotiated?
March 9th, 2022
Via Focus Global, commentary on the Indus Water Treaty: It is a happy augury that a 10-member Indian Delegation is currently visiting Pakistan from March 1-3 to take part in the annual meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission, under the leadership of P.K. Saxena, Indian Commissioner for Indus Waters. In 2021, a delegation from Pakistan […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India Says All Water Projects Compliant With Indus Treaty
March 5th, 2022
Via MINT, a report on India’s India and Pakistan have discussed the exchange of hydrological and flood data at a meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission during which the Indian side underscored that all its projects are fully compliant with the provisions of the Indus Waters Treaty. During the 117th meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission […]
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