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All water-related issues in Pakistan; articles and information about Indus River System Authority; local and international discussions about water in Pakistan.
KARACHI When the rains came this year, the fields in southern Punjab turned into shallow lakes overnight. Families marked the rising water on their walls, livestock was shifted to rooftops, and crops that had taken months of lab...
LAHORE: River levels across Sindh remained high on Saturday, prompting authorities to stay on alert and continue flood-preparedness measures. The heightened vigilance comes after torrential monsoon rains unleashed widespread dev...
LAHORE: Pakistan needs to urgently adopt global water stewardship standards in the aftermath of unprecedented monsoon floods. The government and corporate sector should swiftly embrace global water stewardship standards and i...
For decades, the Kalabagh Dam has been pitched as the silver bullet to Pakistan’s water and power challenges. By the numbers, it promises thousands of megawatts of hydropower and millions of acre-feet of stored water. On th...
LAHORE/KARACHI: A high-level flood alert was issued in Punjab on Sunday after India shared information about fresh releases of water into Pakistani rivers, while the national and provincial disaster management authorities warned...
’Hydro-politics’ or ‘water politics’ is nothing new. But thanks to climate change, hydro-politics between countries is witnessing a manifold increase in intensity. On the one hand, climate change is compounding the probl...
Picture this: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, New Zealand, Pakistan, India and the World Bank sitting around the same table with a shared mission — creating one of the world’s most successful examples...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday stopped short of directly accusing India of using water as a weapon to flood the country, but noted that the information shared by New Delhi about water flows was "not as detailed as in the past" an...
The Ravi River is known as a symbol of prosperity for centuries. Its waves carried joy to the people who lived on its banks. But time changed as the majestic Ravi, which once nourished civilisations in Punjab, was forcibly stopp...
Pakistan and India sprang from the same subcontinent, sharing rivers, soil, and memory. Yet for 78 years since partition, these nuclear-armed neighbors have drifted to opposite shores, their estrangement deepening with each pass...