Rabi crops: water shortage reduced to 50 percent: Irsa
M RAFIQUE GORAYA
LAHORE (January 31 2010): The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) has informed the provinces that due to abnormally low flows in the four live rivers of the country since October 2009, there would be unprecedented 50 percent shortage of irrigation water for the 2010 Rabi crops, Consultant Irrigation Punjab M H Siddiqui told Business Recorder here on Saturday.
He said Irsa which distributes water among the four provinces has told Punjab government that instead of 8 million…