Alarming Situation For Sindh.

The Indus river known for its massive water flow has now made people worried. Continuous shortage in the Indus river has caused an alarming situation for Sindh. As lands are being dry. Areas like Thatta, Badin, and Sujawal are the last areas that fall under the Indus Delta. For years, these areas took huge amounts of water from the Indus delta and fertilized their land. These areas are considered the highest water-taking districts. But when coming to the Human development index, these districts also fall in the last category. The majority of the population of those districts are farmers, fishermen, and shepherds. For a long time, Kotri barrage faced a shortage in its flow, due to which the daily life of people belonging to these areas was affected. In the majority of schools in Sindh, there is a shortage of clean drinking water and where in some schools, if water is available it is not drinkable.

According to a report by WHO, in 2015 people had better resources of drinking water as compared to 2022. Today, 1.5 billion people are deprived of clean drinking water. Polluted water has become the cause of death for millions of people. According to the health experts, different and dangerous diseases are emerging from the polluted water such as Hepatitis A, typhoid, Polio, Daria etc.

Water is an important ingredient for living. Still, Pakistan has not tackled the water crisis. There are many factors which have resulted in the water crisis in Pakistan, such as urbanization, an unstructured system of irrigation and climate change. If this crisis is not tackled, people have to face adverse problems beyond one's thinking.

Today, Pakistan is considered in the category of water shortage countries because the availability of water per person is less than 1000 cusecs annually. If it goes down to 500 cusecs per annum, Pakistan will fall under those countries where merely water is available. In Sindh, most districts are consuming the sewerage mixed with contaminated water according to a report of the Supreme Court-mandated water commission.

80 big cities in Pakistan are deprived of clean water. Most people in those big cities are purchasing water tankers. In that situation, the question arises if water is not available, how are these tanker mafias getting water? Although the government tried to take action against the tanker mafias still have influence and have not been eradicated.

Sindh despite having the Indus river, is still facing a water crisis...