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Muhammad Saifullah1,2, Shiyin Liu1 \*, Muhammad Adnan1,3, Muhammad Ashraf4 , Muhammad Zaman5 , Sarfraz Hashim2 and Sher Muhammad6

1 Institute of International Rivers and Eco-Security, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

2 Department of Agricultural Engineering, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan

3 State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, China

4 Department of Agricultural Engineering, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan

5 Department of Irrigation and Drainage, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

6 International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal

\*Address all correspondence to: shiyin.liu@ynu.edu.cn

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