Though the water scarcity has almost jolted the country's biggest cosmopolitan and populous port city Karachi recently, the four live rivers are flowing with enough fresh water to meet all irrigation needs of the country. The Indus River System Authority(Irsa) is discharging 2,70,000 cusecs water into the countrywide irrigation canal network for sowing and growing the Kharif crops including cash crops cotton, rice and sugarcane, vegetables, fodder for livestock and fruit orchards.
According to 19th May Wapda water report, the water regulatory body is releasing 50,500 cusecs from the Tarbela dam on mighty Indus, 75,500 cusecs off Mangla dam on river Jhelum, 81,300 cusecs run of the Kabul river water and 63,500 cusecs run of the river Chenab water.
The water inflow in the river Indus at Jinnah barrage is 124300 cusecs , at Chashma 110600 cusecs at Taunsa- 90800 cusecs at Panjnad-59500, at Guddu-96200 cusecs at Sukkur-62400 cusecs and at Kotri-Inflows 22800 cusecs.
After filling all irrigation canals to their capacity, the Sindh irrigation is discharging 16.000 cusecs water into the Indus delta.
Weather forecast for today:
Isolated thunderstorm/rain (associated with DS/gusty winds) could occur over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, and Kohat divisions), Punjab (Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore and DG Khan divisions), upper Sindh (Sukkur and Larkana divisions), Quetta, Zhob divisions, FATA, Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir. Mainly very hot and dry weather is expected over rest parts of the country.
Outlook for next 48-hours:
Main very hot and dry weather is expected over most parts of the country; however, thunderstorm/rain (associated with DS/gusty winds) could occur over isolated places of upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab (Rawalpindi, Gujranwala and Lahore divisions), upper Sindh, Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir.
Weather Last 24 hrs:
Weather remained hot and dry in most parts of the country. However, rain/ dust-thunderstorm occurred at isolated places in Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, upper KP, south Punjab and Upper Sindh.
Hottest places Last 24 hrs:
Dadu, Turbat, Sibbi 47°C, Shaheed Benazirabad 46°C, Larkana, Sukkur, Noor Pur Thal 44°C.