Climate secretary casts Indus Waters Formal accord dispute as global test of 'water fairness'
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Climate secretary casts Indus Waters Formal accord dispute as global test of 'water fairness'
Make us preferred on Google Secretary for Climate Change Musadik Malik addresses an global seminar on the Indus Waters Formal accord in Islamabad on June 30, 2026. — Geo News Secretary for Climate Change Musadik Malik delivered an impassioned address this week, framing the unravelling of the Indus Waters Formal accord as a defining test case for water freedoms of downstream nations worldwide.
Malik opened with the story of Iqbal Solangi, a Pakistani farmer whose family had worked the land for seven or eight generations before being wiped out by repeated flooding, first in 2010, then again in 2012, and once more in 2022. Solangi ultimately abandoned farming altogether and now works as a labourer in Karachi.
“Generations of farming lost to water,” Malik stated, adding that Solangi’s story was far from unique. He emphasized to farmers in Bangladesh who depend on water flows for fishing and agriculture, and to a woman in the Sahel who walks roughly four miles each day for a single bucket of water after a nearby river receded, a consequence, he stated, of upstream diversion.
Malik contended that the common thread linking Pakistan’s floods and droughts to similar crises along the Nile, the Tigris, the Mekong, and the former Aral Sea is not scarcity or excess of water itself, but the loss of control over it.
“The danger is not just too little water or too much water,” he stated. “The danger is that someone else who is not you controls the tap through which your water is going to flow.”
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