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 anxiety as this one. Sitting at home, bearing the lack of electricity for two hours and water for even more, I am wondering what kind of Eid is this, where slowly the basic necessities of life are being taken away from us. Wherever I look, whoever I ask, I see the same outcry: there is no water and no electricity. If the posh areas of this city are facing this crisis so badly, one can only imagine what it would be like for the citizens of the less privileged areas like Landhi, where people protest regularly in hopes of getting some water.
If today the construction of kala bagh dam start it will take 6 year to reach success. And its expected that till 2025 Pakistan will run kut from water. The lives of innocents are suffering from rising menace of water crises in Pakistan pakistqn has 155 dam which can only store water for 30 days if today India stops the water so nothing else remain.