Prepared by students of UVAS

1. PRESENTED BY:
Hamid Hussain
WATER CRISIS IN
PAKISTAN

2. TABLE OF CONTENT
⮚ Introduction
⮚ Water crisis in Pakistan.
⮚ Sources and reservoirs of water
⮚ Causes and impacts of water scarcity
⮚ How can we manage it ?

3. INTRODUCTION
 Water crisis is a situation where the available water within a region is less
than that region's demand.
 According to International Monetary Fund (IMF) Pakistan is the 3rd most
affected country in the terms of water scarcity.
 Pakistan’s water storage capacity is just for 30 days against the
international standard of minimum requirement of 120 days.
 Pakistan receives 145 million acre feet of water every year but can only
save 9% of it

4. IMPORTANCE

5. SOURCES OF WATER
Ground
water
Rain
water
Glacier Rivers
StreamsLakes

6. RESEVOIRS OF WATER
 Basic reservoirs
⮚ Terbela Dam
⮚ Mangla Dam
⮚ Chashma Barrage
 Other small reservoirs
⮚ Khanpur dam
⮚ Hub dam
⮚ Warsak dam
⮚ Manchar lake

7. UTILIZATION OF WATER
69%
23%
8%
Agriculture
Indusrty
Domestic
uses
 Agriculture
 Industry
 Domestic uses
Total water consumption by different sectors in Pakistan
Source: IRSA 2018

8. CAUSES OF WATER CRISIS
⮚ Climate change
⮚ Rapid population growth
⮚ Lack of dams and insufficient irrigation
system
⮚ Misuse of water at household level
⮚ Lack of political will to address the
governing issues
⮚ Violation of Indus river Treaty by India.

9. IMPACTS
Health
issues
Effecting
economic
growth
Devastation
of
agriculture
Energy
shortage

10. COPING WITH WATER SCARCITY
⮚ Building new dams & raising height of existing dams
⮚ Adoption of water management strategies
⮚ Implementation of saving technologies
⮚ Launch Nationwide water conservation campaign

11. CONCLUSION