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The Chenab River has dried up in Dhanwali in Punjab province in Pakistan.
India stopped the 65 -year -old Indus Water Agreement with Pakistan on 24 April on the second day of the Pahalgam attack. Now its impact has started appearing in Pakistan.
The flow of Chenab river in Pakistan has decreased by 92%. The river had water flow 98 thousand 200 cusecs on 29 May. Now it has come down to only 7200 cusecs.
The water level can also go below 3000 cusec ie ‘dead level’. 6.5 crore farmers of Punjab and Sindh province are dependent on Chenab for irrigation.
Due to lack of water, more than 40% of the crops are on the verge of ruin. There is also a shortage of water in the Tarbela dam on the Indus and the Mangla Dam on the Jhelum.
Because of this, Pakistan’s Agriculture Ministry has agreed that this time the Kharif season may be the worst in recent history.
Loss of 2200 billion rupees so far There is anger among the farmers’ organizations against the Government of Pakistan and the army due to lack of water. Pakistan Kisan Ittihad (PKI) has warned that if the situation does not improve, the farmers will travel to Islamabad.
PKI claims that due to lack of water, only wheat crop has lost more than 2200 billion rupees. This is 23.15% of the total agricultural GDP. If the water problem is not overcome, then this loss can reach 4500 billion rupees by the end of the year.
The water level of the 7th largest dam in the world is less than half The condition of important dams of Pakistan is very bad. Tarbela and Mangala dams are almost half empty. Mangla, the seventh largest dam in the world, now has 27 lakh acres-foot water left. Its total capacity is 59 lakh acres.
At the same time, only 60 lakh acres-foot (total capacity of 116 lakh acres) is left in Tarbela. If the supply of water continues to decrease in this way, then so far 50% of the stored water will be exhausted.
India closed the gates of Bagihar and Salal Dam a month ago. This is affecting Chenab’s water level in Pakistan.
Farmers consider Green Pakistan project as government conspiracy Under the Green Pakistan project, desert areas like Bahawalpur are to be connected to canals, but farmer leaders say that this will reduce water in the southern parts of the country.
Sindh farmer leader Moses Ali says that ‘Green Pakistan’ is a government conspiracy. Many farmers’ organizations have staged a sit -in against it in March.
PKI President Khalid Mahmood Khokhar says that ruined crops are increasing debt. Due to this, millions of farmers are on the verge of starving.
Farmer leader of Pakistan’s Punjab province Ahmed Sharif said that now the problem of water has become a national emergency. Due to this, the prices of ration are still touching the sky.
Pakistan wrote a letter and requested to give water Pakistan has sent four letters to India so far to restore the Indus Water Agreement. The NDTV has quoted sources as saying that one of these letters has been sent after the operation vermilion.
The four letters were sent by Syed Ali Murtaza, secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources of Pakistan, to the Ministry of Water Power of India. The ministry then sent him to the Ministry of External Affairs (Mea).
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