Due to the negative effects of climate change, rainfall in Pakistan has decreased by 40 percent, due to which the 100-year old record of water shortage in the country’s largest river, the Indus River, has been broken.
According to a private TV report, rainfall in the country has decreased by 40 percent, due to which the 100-year record of water crisis in the Indus River has been broken.
According to the Irrigation Department, the water shortage at the Sukkur Barrage has reached 71 percent and the three barrages of the province are facing a total of 65 percent water shortage, which is the most severe water shortage in the Indus River in the last 100 years.
According to the Irrigation Department’s data, in the first week of April last year, the water shortage at the Sukkur Barrage was 39 percent, which has reached 71 percent this year, while the total water shortage at the three barrages has increased from 37 percent to 65 percent.
It should be noted that there is a plan to divert more canals from the Indus River to irrigate the barren lands of Punjab, against which the entire Sindh is currently protesting.
