Islamabad, Nov. 6 -- Pakistan ranks among the six countries with the highest levels of inefficient agricultural water use, worsening freshwater losses amid increasingly arid conditions, according to the World Bank's first global water monitoring report, Continental Drying: A Threat to Our Future.
The report warns that the world is losing 324 billion cubic metres of freshwater every year, enough to meet the annual needs of 280 million people, due to inefficient water use, worsening droughts, and unsustainable land management practices, reports Dawn.
Based on two decades of satellite data enhanced with new modelling techniques, the report provides an unprecedented look at how global land and water management decisions are shaping freshwater...