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" #ClimateChange has made the South Asian monsoon evermore unpredictable. Heavy rains in the catchment areas of the Beas, Ravi & #Sutlej rivers deep inside #India have flooded #Pakistan ’s #Punjab province."

Great read on how India & Pak carved up the #Indus Rivers under the world's most successful water treaty, & how climate crisis is ruining it

https://www.dawn.com/news/1774527/the-eastern-rivers

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The eastern rivers

Floods in the eastern rivers provide a chance to leapfrog towards flood-resilient infrastructure.

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Activists across #SouthAsia had been loudly warning back-to-back climate disasters can permanently end harvests:

“The agricultural economy in all districts..is now three short crops in succession. Matured rice crops were swept away when the fields flooded in July, but over the next three months (i.e. Jul-Sep), we used to sow and harvest maize. Hopes for both crops are now gone.”

https://www.dawn.com/news/1773680

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Footprints: Sutlej’s fury threatens the breadbasket

Farmers’ estimates of what has happened to them so far are already harrowing.

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"Authorities in #Pakistan have #evacuated over 100,000 people after weeks of rainfall once again led to a dangerous# flooding situation, in a grim reminder of last year’s catastrophe.

#Sutlej river swelled to “extremely high levels” on Saturday, at one point expanding around 4km wider, more than the Indus river, data showed."

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/pakistan-floods-2023-evacuation-punjab-b2397965.html

More than 100,000 evacuated as flooding returns to Pakistan

Sutlej river swelled to ‘extremely high levels’ on Saturday, at one point expanding around 4km wider

The Independent

Floods know no borders: unbelievably intense rains in Northern India leading to flooding across central Pakistan.

" #Punjab govt says rescue efforts under way as flood ‘unprecedented in 35 years’ hits #Sutlej river"

https://www.dawn.com/news/1771012/punjab-govt-says-rescue-efforts-under-way-as-flood-unprecedented-in-35-years-hits-sutlej-river

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Punjab govt says rescue efforts under way as flood ‘unprecedented in 35 years’ hits Sutlej river

Mohsin Naqvi says “278,000 cusecs of water” is rushing near the Ganda Singh border in Kasur; water discharged from Indian side; 6,500 people evacuated.

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