News
Chairperson of Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change, Senator Sherry Rehman, convened the committee meeting on ...
As the monsoons arrive, once again, Pakistan is facing a water crisis, shifting from drought-like scenarios to ...
Hosted on MSN3mon
Pakistan's growing water crisis: A future in jeopardy - MSNPakistan'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 ...
Pakistan is on the brink of a major water crisis, and the country is dangerously unprepared to face it, Senator Sherry Rehman warned ...
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 ...
Relentless floods have claimed the lives of more than 170 people in eastern Pakistan, about half of them children, in the ...
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.
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.
Hosted on MSN4mon
Pakistan's Water Crisis - MSNIn 1950, each person in Pakistan had 5,260 cubic metres of water per year, but this has now dropped to just 1,032 cubic metres. The water crisis demands immediate action.
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 ...
15d
Al Jazeera on MSNCan India stop Pakistan’s river water — and will it spark a new war?The decades-old Indus Waters Treaty faces its gravest challenge as India suspends it, prompting Pakistan to warn of war.
And while the causes of Pakistan’s water crisis are complex, the country’s political instability has played a key part. Pakistan is urbanizing at a rapid rate of over 3 percent annually—the ...
Results that may be inaccessible to you are currently showing.
Hide inaccessible results