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Water Scarcity: The Making of a Pakistani Tinderbox?

Jul 24th, 2013 | By
Pakistan and water

By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org According to a new report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Pakistan is “one of the most water-stressed countries in the world, not far from being classified, ‘water-scarce’.” This has huge implications for the world’s sixth most populous country, which currently stands at 182 million people.  Projections released last month by
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