While Pakistan’s financial crisis is getting much media attention, the water crisis, its most pressing problem, is being ignored. By Osama Rizvi June 08, 2022 ...

Pakistan's water availability per capita has dropped by over 70% in the past 70 years, currently standing at just 1,017 cubic meters, well below the global water scarcity threshold of 1,000 cubic ...

Image: A boy draws drinking water from a well using a hand pump in Peshawar, Pakistan March 4, 2016. Some 650 million people, or one in 10 of the world’s population, have no access to safe water ...

The decades-old Indus Waters Treaty faces its gravest challenge as India suspends it, prompting Pakistan to warn of war.

Pakistan is running out of fresh water at an alarming rate, and authorities anticipate that it is likely to suffer a shortage of 31 million acre-feet (MAF) of water by 2025.

A Pakistan report indicates a 13.3 per cent year-on-year shortfall in water drawn from the Indus River System - and supplied to already water-starved farms in the Punjab province - after India halting ...

Pakistan’s water scarcity crisis can be traced back to before the country was founded. “The regions that now make up most of Pakistan as part of the Indus Basin, ...

Under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan, Pakistan gave up its control over three eastern tributaries of the Indus River, which is one of the root causes of the water crisis. The ...

Pakistan’s rapidly growing population is also contributing to the water crisis. The population has increased from around 34 million in 1951 to more than 220 million in 2021.