How Pakistan is wasting its clean water; Blind Authorities

 

Munaza Kazmi

Pakistan is now a severely water-stressed country. However, everyone is vocally concerned only.

The year 2025 has been marked as the year when Pakistan if it doesn’t mend its ways soon will turn from a “water-stressed” country to a “water-scarce” country. Warnings about water running out have been issued separately by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR). 

And as the alarm bells began to ring, the chief justice of Pakistan launched a campaign to build the DiamerBhasha and Mohmand Dam. In his inaugural speech, Prime Minister Imran Khan, too, has announced his backing for the plan.

However, still the people and the authorities seemed unconcerned and blind, am resident of Islamabad the capital of Pakistan and I observed it on daily basis, there are people, or I should say animals; but it would disgrace to animal as they seem more responsible to the these so called humans, who waste water for hours and hours and hours without realizing the importance of it.

Am writing this case today because I have no power other than to write and can put my effort in correcting a wrong.

My friend shifted to E11/4 Street 13 almost 6 months back and from that day we are observing a house who’s tank spill water from dawn to dusk, never less than 4 hours a day. And today it’s been spilling from 10:00 am and now it’s almost 4:00pm.

Although, we complained on 15 but you know about the police they are most inspired by the Bollywood: came after the incident is over, however in this scenario, they don’t even think this issue important and had never arrived, also I tried to complain Citizen Portal later I realized it’s also a thing of formality.

However, today a good police man heard me, and he came from the Golra Police Station with his van and men, to whom I have much of the gratitude, however unfortunately, we come to know that it was totally a rental building and the people who were spilling the water are on the other side.

AHHH now we might could not get the outcome, and might this water will spill forever, however perhaps there were too many of such cases around the city and around the country to whom we are blind eyed.

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Munaza Kazmi holds MPhil in Management Sciences (Bahria University Islamabad, 2020). She’s a travel writer, an author, & co-author of scientific contributions in national & international publications. Her main areas of research include tourism & quality management.

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