http://dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/08-Aug-17/and-now-some-real-news Daanish Mustafa I recently came across some real news about Pakistan which merits sharing, and commenting. According to a July, 2017 article by Carole Dalin at University College, London and fellow authors, in Nature, world’s top journal for scientific knowledge, Pakistan is the largest exporter of depleted groundwater embedded in agricultural exports in the world. We account for 29 percent of the global trade in agricultural products grown from over abstraction of groundwater, ahead of the United States (27 percent) and India (12 percent). So we are number one in something, should we be happy and proud that we even beat the United States, let alone India? Or is there a cause for concern? The research presented by Dr Dalinet al. is predicated upon the concept of virtual water coined by my esteemed colleague, Prof Tony Allan, at King’s College, London. The concept is simply that all agricultural, or for that matter an