Drought Vulnerability Index in Sindh - Southern Sindh prone to moderate droughts. - Before this drought, severe drought years were 1969, 1974, 1987 and 2002.
Exposure to Drought - Drought Started in 2013 / Ended with the heavy monsoon 2015, but rainfall deficiency resumed in October. - Most severe in the bare and desert areas of Tharparkar and Jamshoro. - Droughts have more disastrous consequences when pressure on water supply is high and institutional management capacity is low. - Drought was most severe in Western and South Eastern Regions, two already very arid areas. - Drought was mediated by access to tube well irrigation in the West. - Drought was mostly moderate in the East. - Most of the irrigated zone was spared by the meteorological drought, but the hydrological drought is largely determined upstream. 20% of households surveyed in the irrigated zone (mostly tail ends) experienced extreme water scarcity.