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 ...

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.

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

Relentless floods have claimed the lives of more than 170 people in eastern Pakistan, about half of them children, in the ...

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 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, ...

Pakistan’s bubbling water crisis. More than 1 billion people in the developing world lack access to clean water, with this number slated to rise to more than 2 billion by 2020.

Meanwhile, climate change, which has reduced water flows into the Indus River, Pakistan's main supply source, will continue to shrink the available water supply. The response to any crisis is ...

One year after catastrophic floods devastated swathes of Pakistan, some 4 million children in the South Asian nation remain without access to safe water, the United Nations children’s agency has ...