Pakistan is on the verge of a major water crisis, and the country is dangerously unprotected to cope with it, Senator Sherry Rehman was warned on Wednesday during a Senate Standing Committee meeting
Islamabad, (Urduupoint / Pakistan Point News – 23rd July 2025) Pakistan is on the verge of a major water crisis, and the country is living to face it, Senator Sherry Rehman warned during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Wednesday. “Pakistan is not ready for any water crisis,” he announced, immediate reforms were urged as the climate increases disasters.
Presiding over the meeting, Senator Rahman depicted a serious picture of the country’s vulnerability for extreme weather events, especially intimidating this year’s devastating monsoon season. Between 26 June and 22 July alone, 242 people have been killed and about 600 were injured in rain -related incidents. “In the last 24 hours, 21 people have been killed.
The senator criticized rude construction on natural waterways, citing Saidpur village in Islamabad and DHA Rawalpindi as an example, where unplanned development contributed directly to the life of destruction. “We can no longer call it a natural disaster.
Search operations, Sheh, said, “Still have been swept away in Dr. Rawalpindi for a father and daughter. He also recommended banning tourism in emergency-hit Gilgit-Baltistan.
An important part of the meeting focused on the declining groundwater resources of the country. Officials admitted that no ministry had complete map or data on groundwater extraction or surface water consumption.
Senator Rahman called the absence of data and planned a “total fragmented and insufficient response” by the United Nations this year, especially “water rare” in a country.
Rahman said, “The provinces should be told how many tube wells are allowed to install,” in 1975, showing tube wells, showing tube wells, from 160,000 -76 to 1.39 million to 160,000 in 2017-18, cited the filming of the government. “Meanwhile, other South Asian counties are city-level systems for monitoring groundwater.”
Rahman also posted the lack of progress on basic water condenses tools, such as rainwater harvesting and recharging wells. “The world is giving it priority, but in Pakistan, we are trapped in inertia,” he commented. “The land in Balochistan and Chitral is alive, which is barren, and even after the monsoon, the provintes have to face acute shortage.”
Another major concern was the country’s old initial warning system. “We have been using a model since 1912, which of the world is using real-time, A-S) alert,” Rahman said.
She motivates the committee’s directors to upgrade and distract to provision and distract.
The committee directed that the provinces should submit an up-date report on the status of ground water, recharge efforts and tube well regulation in the next meeting.
The session was attached by Senator Bushra Anjum Butt, Fallak Naz, Syed Waqar Mehdi, and Martyr Avan with senior officials of the Ministry of Climate Change, Ministry of Water Resources and Federal Flood Commission.
