The study, which comes from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), says that the effects of climate change will be combined with an ever-increasing number of people to trigger intense competition for increasingly scarce resources.
Future water wars cannot be neglected.Approximately,Eight hundred million people are lacking clean drinking water around the globe.
It had a population of 210 million now.The country is grappling with the same sorts of growing pains that its neighbour, India, is experiencing.
The year 2025 has been marked as the year when Pakistan — if it doesn’t mend its ways soon — will turn from a “water-stressed” country to a “water-scarce” country.
Glacier melting is responsible for roughly half of the water flowing in the Indus, making the situation worse.
The health of the Himalayas in the face of the Earth’s changing climate is a real, and growing, concern.
“Given the rapid melting of the Himalayan glaciers that feed the Indus River… and growing tensions with upriver archenemy India about use of the river’s tributaries, it’s unlikely that Pakistani food production will long keep pace with the growing population,” Steven Solomon ,Writer Of Water comprising the epic struggle for wealth,power, and civilisation.He also told that Middle East would be the first region to confront the issue and which actually apparent as of now Yemen,wrote in The New York Times.
If both countries collaborated on a series of giant, large-scale dams that were built to rotate water use to different regions, tensions could be reduced.More than 700 billion gallons of water are pulled from the Indus River every year to grow this cotton.
“The problem with Pakistan’s economy is that most of the major industries use a ton of water—textiles, sugar, wheat—and there’s a tremendous amount of water that’s not only used, but wasted.” Water crisis in Pakistan and overall the world has become adverse than never before.All this should serve as a clarion call to our leaders who are busy in power politics and political squabbling.
Dr. Zeeshan Khan is a medical doctor, enthusiast writer, educationist, Human Rights Defender, Blogger, certified trainer and Poet.