WATER is one precious source on which life sustains.
The most affected area of the country is Baluchistan, where the level has alarmingly dropped to 1000 ft which was earlier 300 ft. With the growing population of the country, the need for managing more water resources is relentless and inevitable.
The very first reason is the country’s inability and failure to build and conserve large number of water reservoirs or dams during last few decades.
India is also building dams on the western rivers of Pakistan which is jeopardising the pressure that if India releases its stored water, its flow towards Pakistan will cause floods due to its natural geographic landscape of being an upper riparian state.
India is also building dam on Wular Lake whereas Pakistan due to its political disagreement among the political parties has been unable to build a consensus on Kala Bagh Dam.
It is tacit fact that during monsoon season there is surplus water, that can be stored, yet due to lack of inefficient management of water resources it all gets wasted.
Pakistan being an agricultural society is highly dependent on water and irrigation system.
For this purpose, all the stakeholders, provinces, government and political representatives should have consultative dialogue and consensus on adopting new strategies and better options for concerns on water.
Operative management of water resources need to be prioritized and policies need to be defined and resourcefully implemented.
This issue should be tackled very seriously else Pakistan will face grave consequences in near future.