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Water crises on Eid Day

Life in Pakistan has never been easy. The living conditions continue to deteriorate with each passing year. The effects of climate change, coupled with the water crises, are making life harder and harder for people living here. The  power outages  do not help either. However, this year, the repercussions of climate change and the water crisis are being felt the most, and things are about to get much worse. Today is Eid, which many people in the colonial parts of the city, especially certain gated communities, are enjoying to the fullest. Perhaps because they do not face the same problems as us  common people . They happen to be unaware that they are definitively going to be next in line. These participants of Eid festivities portray the same picture as that of cattle about to be sacrificed – munching their last meals, drinking water still available and uttering meaningless but satisfied sounds, without having any idea about their sorry fate. No previous Eid has been as full of anx