Karachi continues to face a severe and prolonged water shortage. The crisis stems from ageing and damaged pipelines, frequent electricity outages that disrupt pumping, a widening gap between supply and demand and widespread water theft. Together, these issues leave households, schools, hospitals and businesses struggling for clean, drinkable water.
Citizens are urging the authorities to take immediate steps: repair and replace faulty pipelines, improve the electricity supply to ensure steady water distribution, curb illegal water usage and implement fair and efficient allocation. Karachi’s water crisis demands urgent and sustained action to prevent the situation from getting even worse.
Zehra Waseem
Karachi
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Pakistan is one of the ten most water stressed countries in the world. The majority of people do not have no access to clean drinking water and much of our water flows from our hostile neighbour India.
The latter has now abrogated the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) agreement, effectively using water as a weapon. We must build new dams in order to counter this problem
and improve our water storage capacity.
Sajjad Khattak
Attock
