groundwater

Shah Khalid ShahBAJAUR: On a rainy day in Bajaur, thousands of litres of water can disappear within minutes. It rushes down rooftops, streets and mountain slopes, gathers in drains and streams, and eventually flows away. For many…

Dr Ikramullah Climate Warning We IgnoredDr IkramullahPESHAWAR: There was a time when the people of Bajaur did not need a calendar to know which season had arrived. Cold winds and snowfall signalled winter, spring flowers…

Shazia MehboobIslamabad: The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) on Wednesday urged federal and provincial governments to make rainwater harvesting systems mandatory across Pakistan, warning that sustainable water management…

News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan’s groundwater lifeline is fast running dry — and the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) has sounded the alarm. In a new policy roadmap unveiled at a seminar co-hosted with the Planning…

Ali Nawaz RahimooTharparkar: Water, the most essential ingredient of life, is under severe strain in Tharparkar, Sindh’s arid desert district. Already crippled by chronic scarcity, Thar now faces an even deadlier challenge: the…

Fakhar-e-AlamPeshawar: As the early morning sun casts a golden hue over Peshawar’s dusty roads, the 40-year-old rickshaw driver from Lala Kala village loads six large tanks of clean drinking water from Chamkani, hauling them back home…

Dr IkramullahBajaur: The deterioration of subsurface water levels is a global challenge that is poised to escalate into one of the most critical problems facing future generations. For years, the depletion of groundwater has been an…

News DeskIslamabad: Senate Standing Committee on Water Resources Chairman Shahadat Awan informed that Pakistan extracts 9 per cent of the world’s total groundwater, leading to a significant imbalance as the recharge rate is much lower…

Danish Hussain LehriQuetta: Ten years ago, when Mama Ismail began extracting water through tube wells, the water level was approximately 180 to 200 feet.Since then, the level has gradually dropped to around 1100 feet.The absence…

Dr Saeed Ahmad Ali Lahore: Experts warned on Sunday that arsenic concentration in groundwater has reached alarming levels, and drinking arsenic-contaminated water is one of the major causes of arsenicosis, a clinical syndrome in people in…