The Indus Delta is considered one of the world’s most threatened large deltas due to upstream freshwater extraction which irrigates 180,000 square kilometer of agriculture area
A severe reduction in fresh water flow from 93 to 48 million acre feet (maf) was observed during a 80 years period spanning from 1922 to 2002
The impact of the reduction in freshwater flow to mangroves in the
Indus Delta is not fully understood because of conflicting figures
from various stakeholders including the Sindh Forest Department,
Sindh Coastal Development Authority, the International Union for
Conservation of nature (IUCN) and World Wide Fund for Nature e
Pakistan (WWF e Pakistan)