پاکستان کے جنوبی صوبہ سندھ کے صحرائے تھر کے شہر چھاچھرو سے تقریباً 16 کلومیٹر کے فاصلے پر واقع گاؤں گَرڑی میں صبح کے نو بجے ہی گرم ہوائیں چلنا شروع ہوگئی ہیں۔ ریت کے دو بڑے ٹیلوں پر بنے اس گاؤں کے بیچ میں موجود وسیع میدان میں کئی بچے گدھوں پر...
Amar Guriro
Zulfiqar Kunbhar
Zofeen Ebrahim
Category - Water
Kalbe Ali
Hafeez TunioYearning for a drop: Shahdadkot left at mercy of contaminated water
After grappling with a severe potable water shortage for years without reprieve, the Shahdadkot residentiary has turned its woes to the region’s ruling party, now demanding to be heard. Hundreds of people from the town...
سنہ 2025 تک دنیا کی نصف آبادی پانی کی کمی کا شکار ہوجائے گی
آج دنیا بھر میں عالمی یوم آب منایا جارہا ہے، اقوام متحدہ کے مطابق دنیا کی تیزی سے بڑھتی ہوئی آبادی کے پیش نظر آبی ذخائر میں خطرناک کمی آتی جارہی ہے۔ اس دن کو منانے کا آغاز سنہ 1992 میں برازیل کے شہر ریو ڈی جنیرو میں...
Fariha Fatama
Of red tape and water woes of Katlang villagers
PESHAWAR: The issue of drinking water being faced by the residents of Shamozai village in Katlang tehsil in Mardan district for many years is a classic example of red tape and incompetence of the public sector...
Mushtaq Yusufzai
Frequent droughts: Remodelling of water distribution & irrigation infrastructure stressed
PESHAWAR: Experts at a seminar on Thursday called for better management of transboundary rivers to cope with growing water scarcity, frequent droughts and increasing heatwaves due to climate change. The experts stressed...
In search of clean drinking water
In the constituency of Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah, drinking water is a key issue Inside small water well, on a narrow road, a young man is busy digging a ditch. Using his spade, he loosens a lump of mud and...
Global handwashing day observed
Islamabad : Increase in handwashing with soap trend has been driven by fear during the early stages of pandemic, but fear based changes are short lived. Therefore there is a need to sustain these handwashing habits...
Mayra Imran
Passive laws : Women in agriculture await equal representation
Lack of legal implementation continues to fence female farmers from being held in the same regard as men KARACHI: It was for the first time in the history of Sindh that a landmark ruling had hinted at the possibility of...
Clean water, decent toilets and hygiene can bring trillions of dollars to developing countries
Developing country economies would be boosted by trillions of dollars over the next two decades if clean water, toilets and hygiene were brought to everyone
Imrana Komal
Parliamentarians pledge to work for groundwater extraction management
Islamabad : Parliamentarians from National Assembly, Senate and provincial assemblies of Punjab and Sindh have pledged to work together to improve legislative framework governing ground water extraction in Pakistan and...
’تھر میں پانی لانا عورت کے نصیب میں لکھا ہے
پاکستان کے جنوبی صوبہ سندھ کے صحرائے تھر کے شہر چھاچھرو سے تقریباً 16 کلومیٹر کے فاصلے پر واقع گاؤں گَرڑی میں صبح کے نو بجے ہی گرم ہوائیں چلنا شروع ہوگئی ہیں۔ ریت کے دو بڑے ٹیلوں پر بنے اس گاؤں کے بیچ میں موجود وسیع...
Chaos in PA over city’s water woes
KARACHI: Amid a chaotic session on Friday as opposition lawmakers protested the water shortage in Karachi, the Sindh Assembly passed The Sindh Evacuee Trust Properties (Management and Disposal) Act 2019, for “the...
Govt unable to answer for dormant water schemes
KARACHI: For the third time in two years, the Sindh Public Health Engineering Department minister failed to provide a satisfactory answer to queries over nonfunctional mega drinking water schemes in various districts of...