Solar-powered farming is digging Pakistan into a water catastrophe

By Ariba Shahid MURIDKE, Pakistan (Reuters) -Karamat Ali's cows and buffalos once provided his multi-generational family with milk. But earlier this year, the 61-year-old sold about a dozen bovine - and spent the proceeds on a set of solar panels. The rice farmer in Pakistan's Punjab province now uses his panels to power a tube well, which is composed of a water well and a motorised groundwater