Dera Ghazi KhanChashma canal water ran 96% short in August, an irrigation officer says.

240,000 Punjab acres depend on it, and the groundwater beneath them is brackish.

A breach in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa reach on 14 September cut Punjab’s supply to zero.

Punjab officials blame farmers upstream, who allegedly steal 1,000 cusecs, per Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s irrigation authorities.

The Water and Power Development Authority awarded a Rs385 million repair on 30 September, due in 45 days.

How each outlet framed it
Dawn leans critical
documents Punjab's 77–98% monthly water shortages on the CRBC and blames water theft and unrepaired breaches, with no official listening to farmers

Sources: Dawn