{"id":58014,"date":"2019-11-26T17:19:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58014"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:29:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T09:29:16","slug":"experts-share-shocking-stats-on-lahores-underground-water-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/experts-share-shocking-stats-on-lahores-underground-water-table.html","title":{"rendered":"Experts share shocking stats on Lahore&#8217;s underground water table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Experts have shared shocking statistics on Lahore underground water table warning that unless major conservation efforts are undertaken in the city during the next few years, the water table is expected to fall to dangerously low levels by the year 2025 \u2014 a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/plan-to-supply-water-at-lahore-homes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plan to supply water at Lahore homes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a detailed comparison of the current water levels with those from 35 years ago, hard water was available at about 40 feet in Lahore back then, but is now only available at 150 feet. Similarly, soft water was available at about 200 feet previously, while now the level has fallen to about 800 feet.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that the water levels are falling\u00a0 by about one metre, each year. In addition, approximately 3,000 cusecs of water is drawn from underground sources every day; amounting to about 6 billion gallons of water per annum.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lahores-underground-water-table-drops-alarming-level.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lahore&#8217;s underground water table drops to alarming level<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the current state of affairs is allowed to continue, not only will it result in a significant drop in the water levels; it will also cause the level of arsenic in the groundwater to rise as well \u2013 making it toxic and unfit for consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Experts have shared shocking statistics on Lahore underground water table warning that unless major conservation efforts are undertaken in the city during the next few years, the water table is expected to fall to dangerously low levels by the year 2025 \u2014 a news source reported. Read:\u00a0Plan to supply water at Lahore homes According to a detailed comparison of the current water levels with those from 35 years ago, hard water was available at about 40 feet in Lahore back then, but is now only available at 150 feet. Similarly, soft water was available at about 200 feet previously, while now the level has fallen to about 800 feet. It is estimated that the water levels are falling\u00a0 by about one metre, each year. In addition, approximately 3,000 cusecs of water is drawn from underground sources every day; amounting to about 6 billion gallons of water per annum. Read:\u00a0Lahore&#8217;s underground water table drops to alarming level If the current state of affairs is allowed to continue, not only will it result in a significant drop in the water levels; it will also cause the level of arsenic in the groundwater to rise as well \u2013 making it toxic and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":48961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14130],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-water-table-to-fall-dangerously-low-by-2025"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Experts share shocking stats on Lahore&#039;s underground water table - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: Experts have shared shocking statistics on Lahore underground water table warning that unless major conservation efforts are undertaken in the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/experts-share-shocking-stats-on-lahores-underground-water-table.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Experts share shocking stats on Lahore&#039;s underground water table - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: Experts have shared shocking statistics on Lahore underground water table warning that unless major conservation efforts are undertaken in the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/experts-share-shocking-stats-on-lahores-underground-water-table.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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