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LAHORE, April 2: Underground aquifer is dropping fast in Punjab and during 2003-04 alone it dropped by seven inches, provincial Irrigation Minister Aamer Sultan Cheema said. According to zone-wise dropping of water level, he said, Sargodha witnessed a drop of 5.98 inches, Faisalabad 14.2, Lahore 2.5, Multan 11.15, Bahawalpur 10.65, Dera Ghazi Khan 6 inches and Thal region 5.67 inches.
He said that during the last few years, underground water had become increasingly unfit for agriculture purposes. —Staff Reporter
