Trump aid cut imperils water scheme in Jacobabad

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Jacobabad: In the hottest cities in the world, fresh and filtered water can extinguish attacks in connection with climate change – but foreign aid to US President Donald Trump is a threat to its significant supply. –

In the southern province of southern Sindh, Pakistan’s sun, Jacobabad city, sometimes exceeds 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in rising heatwaves, causing dehydration and heat deficiency. Causes important health problems.

In 2012, USAID committed Million 66 million grants to promote Sindh’s municipal services, with a flagship to pump water and clean water from a canal at a distance of 22 km (14 miles). There is also a decoration. But Pakistani non -profit hands say that Trump’s relief Amanj has withheld $ 1.5 million allocated to make the scheme viable in the long run, and has put the project “in a few months”. “He has changed our lives, where he has been forecast to pass through 30C next week. He added,” If the water supply is disconnected, “Tiffil Ahmed, 25, told AFP in Jacobabad. It will be very difficult for us. “Survival will be difficult, because water is the most important thing for life.”

According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, Sindh saw an average of less than 52 percent of the rain between September and mid -January, with “moderate drought” in the coming months, “moderate drought”. Scientists say heatwaves are becoming hot, long and more often due to climate change. The pipes of the project are 1.5 million gallons (5.7 million liters) daily and serve about 350 350,000 people in Jacobabad, say hands – a city where poverty is common.

Hands said it has found Trump’s 90 -day frozen on foreign aid through media reports, with no prior warnings. “Since everything is suspended, we have to withdraw our staff and we have to withdraw all services for this water project,” CEO Sheikh Tanveer Ahmed told AFP. Forty -seven staff, including experts who serve water and infrastructure, have been sent home. Ahmed predicted that the service would potentially stop working “within the next few months”, and that the project would be “complete failure” until no other funder took action. The scheme is currently in the hands of the local government, which has a lack of technical or revenue, which has a lack of technical or revenue. Instead of donating the collecting skills, they were ready to fund the bill payments.

The international aid community is under the leadership of the US government to reduce or eliminate Trump’s campaign. The most concentrated fire has been on Washington’s aid agency USAID, which represents 42 % of humanitarian aid worldwide budget. According to the Pew Research Center, but this is between only 0.7 and 1.4 percent of the US government’s total costs in the last quarter century. Trump claims that USAID is “run by radical madmen”, while Musk describes it as a “criminal organization” that needs to be “via Wood Chapper”.

In Jacobabad, 47 -year -old local social worker Abdul Ghani requested to continue his work. “If the supply is disconnected, it will have a serious impact on the people,” he said. “Poverty has spread here and we cannot tolerate alternatives.”

Residents have complained that the supply of Jacobabad is complicated, but still describes it as an invaluable service in the city where alternative private donkeys are buying water from tankers. Eighteen -year -old student Noor Ahmed said that before our women had to walk for hours to collect water.

Hands says the monthly cost of private tankers is 10 times higher, with a rate of Rs 500 (80 1.80) and often has pollution like arsenic. “The dirty water we used to buy was harmful to our health, and we will get even more costing,” said Sadro -ud -din Lashari, 55, said 55 -year -old Sidrouddin Lashari. “This water is clean. He added that supply cannot be stopped.

According to the German Watch Climate Index released this year, Pakistan -as the most affected country of climate change, to analyze data from Pakistan and 2022. The loss of $ 14.9 billion has been estimated after the summer heatwave.

The 2010 floods also caused heavy damage to the Jacobabad water system, killing about 1,800 and 21 million. Pakistan produces less than one percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, which scientists say they are pushing human -made climate change. Islamabad has permanently demanded countries that contribute more and more to help to get into their population on the next line of climate change. “This is amazingly warm here throughout the year,” Lashhari said. “We need constant water.”