Pakistan's Economic Woes.

Pakistan's debt has reached 88 percent of GDP, from March to June 2022, there was a loss of 500 billion rupees to the national treasury. The previous government endangered the country's economy by announcing an amnesty scheme in reducing prices of petrol, and energy manufacturing products and lowering taxes. Later on, the current government increased the prices of electricity and petroleum products at the terms of International Monetary Fund (IMF). Besides, the previous regimes in Pakistan while neglecting the agriculture sector, are now importing agricultural commodities worth $9 billion which the country used to export earlier.

Amidst the economic crisis, recent floods in Pakistan, and particularly in Balochistan, have worsened the economic scenario further. In every city and region, unsophisticated and illegal constructions on water pathways are established. The main question is who will take care of the waterways where people have not been taken care of? According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), till the last week of July 2022, there has been 192 percent more rain than the average in Pakistan. The average rainfall in Pakistan in July is 51.5 mm, but this year it has been 150 mm. According to PMD in July 2022, there was 132.4 mm of rainfall in Balochistan`s which is 443 percent more in comparison to last decade that was 24 mm approximately. This enormous rise in precipitation triggered rain induced floods in the province, pushing people lives and their mud houses into peril.

Among the detrimental effects of the floods are the loss of life, damage to infrastructure like dams, roads, bridges, agricultural products, livestock, irrigation systems, and flood control structures. Floods will worsen price hikes and cause shortage of edible domestic products in the affected areas and there are different restraints in demand and supply of various basic items due to barriers in road pathways. Significantly, access to clean potable water is the main hurdle in flood hit areas and unavailability of clean water has the potential to aggravate further diseases like diarrhea, vomiting and body immune system.

The availability of clean drinking water due to high demand and low supply will deteriorate...