Pakistan is currently facing a severe water crisis due to scarce surface water resource availability, the depleting of groundwater, frequent climate shocks, and an exponentially increasing population.

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 ...

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

Despite the consecutive repeated climate crises, whether the floods in 2010 and 2022 or heatwaves in 2015, 2022, and now in ...

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.

ISLAMABAD, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan on Saturday warned of a full-force response to any attempt by India to divert or block its share of water under the Indus Waters Treaty.

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 ...

Perhaps the strangest thing about Pakistan’s water crisis is that until recently, the country had been doing well in connecting more of its citizens to water supply and sanitation networks.