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The coastal belt of the egg has long supported trade, families, cultural pursuit, agriculture and water agriculture. However, it is now facing a crisis due to the absence of safe drinking water. Seasonal cultivation has also been affected. In some areas, people have to use canal water or contaminated groundwater to drink.
While visiting the Theato, Sujul and Badin districts, I saw many villagers who shared their stories with me.
Wearing a Sindhi Shalwar, and wearing a Sindhi hat, 70 -year -old Babu Lashhari said he had finished the primary school. He remembered that his village was once named after his elders. Now his name is. Babu Lashhari village was established 70 to 80 years ago in Sukhpur Union Council in Mirpur Sakro Talko in the district. It lacks access to electricity, internet and safe water supply. Sitting on a wooden structure near his autocracy, Babu said there were about 30 households in the village, with a population of about 225 people, including 90-95 children. He said there is no clean water, high school or playground for children. The only primary school was in a very poor condition and attracted very few children.
An International Fund for Agriculture Development has revealed about the Sindh Coastal flexible project since September 2024 that “84 percent of the provinces of Badin, Sujul and Thtta districts are considered to be the poorest of the province’s poorer. Only 16 percent of domestic countries are due to the lack of youth and young people and young people, especially young people and young people. There is a shortage of community and youth due to lack of community and youth, which is lacking and lacking, which is due to the lack of community and young people, especially the lack of skills and youth, which the community and the youth can reduce especially low skills and youth deficiencies.
In Badin District, I met Dino Bhunurio myself, who was in a lot of voices about the problems facing the villagers. Established in 1876, Muhammad Ishaq Bhanovio Village has benefited from a manual water filtration plant in UCA Olivia Jarkas in Tando Bago Talko. There are 220 households, with a population of 950.
Dino said that before the filtration plant was set up, he used the whole village to drink canal water and cook and cook livestock. According to Rashida, a social activist from the Theato, most of the drinking water supply is contaminated in Badin. He said that many people in Sujul have been released to use salty water. He said, he said, most of the areas were lacking water. Rashida said he was an active member of a local support organization, known as Benazir.
The National Rural Support Program, with the technical support of the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources, provides a manual water filtration plant in several districts of Sindh, including Badin and Theato.
In March 2024, the recipient of the Masitat Satara-Tamiaz, Dr. Rashid Bajwa, is the CEO of the NRSP. He said he was confident that villagers could maintain and run the filter plants. Bajwa said that the NRSP has planned to provide similar plants to more villages in these and other districts.
To restore the ancient beauty of the coastal belt, which extends to Sujul and Badin districts, the government should formulate a comprehensive policy to prefer tourism and re -activate trade routes.
Ibrahim Jat, a social worker in Jati Taluku district of Sujul District, said that most of the ground water was contaminated and ineligible for human use. He said that the supply of canal water to the area is also limited. This left a large population without access to the canal water.
Poverty
Multi -dimensional poverty is a serious problem throughout the coastal belt. In some villages, people are not even assured of two meals a day. Due to the absence of safe drinking water, many people are forced to use salty or contaminated water. “The government is not paying much attention to the suffering of the people of the coastal belt,” said Bhunoo.
Babu said that the NRSP has provided them with a manual water filtration plant. He took me to his village where the plant was installed. Women from several villages were there to carry water for their families.
Before the intervention of the NRSP, Babu said, the price of water was so high, not all villagers can afford it. People who are forced to use unsafe water are often suffering from water -borne diseases. Diarrhea, toothache and stomach upset complaints were normal.
According to the World Health Organization, contaminated water and poor sanitation are related to the spread of diseases such as diarrhea, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio. It also warns that the poor, inadequate and incorrectly managed water and cleaning services expose people to avoid health risks.
Local media reports show that more than 181,000 cases of water -borne diseases have been reported in Sindh so far this year. Along with 78,518 cases of diarrhea, 26,232 cases of dysentery in children under the age of five are surprised in the last three months. In addition, there have been 76,336 incidents of diarrhea over the age of five.
Dr. Nazir Haider Shah, a senior health professional in Echo, highlighted the challenges that present water shortages to the communities of the coastal belt. Its insight emphasizes the need for immediate, targeted action to deal with the twin crises and public health risks of water shortage and public health risks in the region. Dr Shah said that the Filali Canal, which runs from Hyderabad to coastal areas, is an important concern. Although it provides water to the region, it also has pollution and pollution, which protects the residents of these villages from exposed diseases. He says the incident of skin diseases is related to the use of water from the Flyli canal.
Water resource expert Dr Hassan Abbas said that the district once received fresh water from Sindh Delta Creeks. After the irrigation of the canal, in the Indus Basin, in the 1850s, the flow of the skins started to decrease. Today, he said, Delta was deprived of river water and dirt and saline water was entering the skins.
“Environmental developmental development samples, dams and turns are continuing,” he said. Unless it changes, fresh water supply for its residents is decreasing. “
In villages receiving NRSP filer plants, the villagers showed a sense of ownership of the community. Some people said they had trained their operations and care.
Talking about the efficacy of the filtration plant, Babu said that about 500 500 liters of water is being filtered daily.
Villagers and social workers said that the government should have developed a comprehensive policy to restore the ancient beauty of the coastal belt, which extends to Sujul and Badin districts, preferred tourism, re -activate trade routes, financial support for modern small businesses and establishing rural business centers.
The author is a sustainable development expert and public policy analyst. It can be arrived at furqanhyders@gmail.com
