The water crisis has broken a 22-year record in the country as theprovinces-face 50 per cent shortage of water and there is 97 per centwater scarcity in reservoirs.
According to the details released by the Indus River System Authority(IRSA), 56 per cent less water link iscoming to the rivers due to extremely low temperatures in the northernareas.
The details released by the IRSA also reveal that Tarbela Dam has beenempty for the last one-and-a-half months, and there is nearly no storage ofwater link in Mangla Dam.
The total flow of water link in the riversis 125,000 cusecs, whereas, the total flow of waterlink in these rivers was 284,000 cusecs lastyear, according to the IRSA document.
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The water link storage in the dams is100,000-acre feet, whereas, the waterlinkin the dams was 3.5 million-acre feet last year.
