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| With annual budgets defence centric, Pak may be in for drinking water crisis in future | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 28: While on one hand Pakistan is on the brink of facing severe shortage of drinking water on the other Islamabad seems to remain engaged in developing its warfare and in keeping terrorists of various hues in good humour.
Latest reports say that among the developing nations Pakistan may be in for a bigger problem as far as poor availability of safe drinking water to its people is concerned.
People in developing countries do not have access to safe drinking water and in Pakistan; the vast majority of the country's 180 million inhabitants do not have access to drinkable water.
According to a report of Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), the best rural water supply amongst the provinces is in Punjab where only 7 per cent of the rural population depends on a dug well or a river, canal or stream.
In Sindh, some 24 per cent of the rural population depends on these sources.
The rural water supply situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa and Balochistan is worst as about 46 per cent and 72 per cent respectively of the rural population depend on water from wells, streams or canals.
According to a report by the Leadership for Environment and Development, by the year 2025, almost 52 nations comprising half the world's population will have a severe shortage of potable water.
In the next 25 years, some 3 billion people will be facing water shortages.
Pakistan in its efforts to raise the living standard of its citizens remained largely preferring economic development over environmental issues
Experts are of the opinion that since Pakistan's annual budget allocations remain defence centric sufficient funds are not being allocated for the development of drinking water schemes. These experts say that political instability continue fear over the Army takeover and mushroom growth of terrorist outfits have left hardly any interest in the successive establishments in Islamabad and other provinces in Pakistan in developing drinking water schemes. |
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