MULTAN, Feb 19: Sindh Tas Water Council has warned that the country may face acute shortage of food owing to shrinking water resources.

Addressing a `national water conference’ here on Thursday, council chairman Zahoorul Hassan Dahar said that though country was facing a number of serious problems and threats, all the problems were not so threatening as the blocking of Pakistan’s water by India.

He said that India was not only constructing five big dams on Chenab and Jhelum rivers it was also constructing a tunnel to divert Indus water.

He said that at least 405 canals and 124 distributaries in Pakistan would go dry up in the wake of Baglihar Dam construction, rendering millions of hectares of land barren.He said that history was evident that the unannounced and dishonest alteration in the Punjab boundary made by Radcliff and Mountbatten at the time of the Partition, by which the two very important headworks of Madhopur on the Ravi and Ferozpur on the Sutlej were given to India, laid the foundation of depriving Pakistan of water resources that historically and geographically belonged to it.

He urged the government to prevent India from constructing new dams and move the international court in this regard.