Pakistan, March 28 -- As a weak rain system is ongoing nowadays, it is too little and too late. Our agriculture is staring at an alarming crisis. With Kharif season around the corner, an unprecedented water shortage now threatens crop production. All dams are nearly empty and river flows have shrunk. This year, snowfall in catchment areas has been low. Typically, we take it a seasonal concern, but we are told that it signals a deeper problem-climate change, poor water management and a failure to plan ahead.

Pakistan's dependence on agriculture as the main industry demands that there should be enough to irrigate farms. Irrigation experts are left with no choice but to ration water on a month-to-month basis. This is a poor planning and thi...