Water poses a nightmare scenario for Pakistan today!

June 30, 2015 02:09

Back in 2011, the American actor George Clooney recalled asking Barack Obama to identify the one thing that kept him up at night.

"Pakistan," replied the US president.

Obama did not elaborate. We can assume, however, that he was alluding to the various nightmare scenarios that spooked Washington officialdom back then, including loose nukes and state disintegration.

Today, Pakistan should still be keeping President Obama up at night -- but not because of those aforementioned fears, which have always been purely hypothetical and somewhat fanciful. Instead, what should be causing sleepless nights for Obama -- and concerned humanity overall -- is water scarcity. It is a nightmare scenario that is all too real, and all but inevitable, for Pakistan.

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