The duty of providing potable water where required is becoming too difficult all across the world.
In recent decades, countries have made necessary investments in infrastructure designed to alleviate water shortages.
But the reply has for the most part unnoticed the crisis posed by the worsening state of aquatic resources.
If the increasing water crisis is to be effectively addressed, actions will need to link water use with environmental care.
In many places, even where water is still abundant, environmental damage has made water too expensive to use. In some others that enjoy a good supply of water, it is used improperly.
Priorities can be so crooked that while cities remain desperate for water, farmers are irrigating fruits or cotton in the desert.
Even less acceptable, fresh water is used to preserve gardens and maintain golf courses while the urban poor are forced to pay high to buy drinking water by the bucket.
As a result, more than 700 million people in over 40 countries are affected by water shortages.
Human encroachment on water environments is also a growing problem.
The challenge remains of meeting today’s water needs while putting in place innovative strategies to address future requirements.
Not enough measures have been taken to solve this issue, while sometime the efforts which are made seem to be difficult to translate into action.
When the authorities sit down to bargain about the allocation of water, the environment gets short shrift.
SYED HASSAM AHMED
Karachi
We cannot produce something from nothing, there is less water in the canals because there is less water in the rivers since there is less water in the dams; with the manifold increase in population the demand for food and hence for water for irrigation has increased but there has been no increase in the supply side since Tarbela dam was commissioned 38 years ago; Pakistan is drying up, how long are we going to survive on two aging dams
The Indus delta – the sixth largest in the world is on verge of death due to man made disaster. Punjab is stealing Sindh’s share of water daringly for the last one and half century.
Presently, one third (from Kotri to Arabian Sea)of Sindh has been turned into desert by not releasing 10 maf water downstream Kotri despite 22 years back Water Accord – 1991 was signed and now might Punjab wants to turn another part of Sindh from Kotri to Sukkur into desert.
A team comprising of engineers from Sindh recently visited Punjab to investigate where Sindh’s share of water (37000 cs) was missing in Punjab’s jurisdiction but Punjab government did not cooperate and they return back.
It is very sad some people from Punjab want to see 2.6 million people of Sindh continue to die due to hunger and thirst between Kotri and Arabian Sea despite they are Muslims and Pakistani Sindhis.
Had Indus delta in Punjab, the situation would have been different. Unfortunately, Sindh is suffering from the hands of Pakistani Jews. Very sad
Smelling coming water crisis through out the world, might Punjab wants to suck the blood of Sindhis by constructing controversial Kalabagh dam in Punjab so that it usurp Sindh's share of water easily.
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