Need for formal water policy at national level stressed“Each time I give her the bottle, I boil the water,” she tells. More than two-thirds of households drink bacterially contaminated water and, every year, 53,000 Pakistani children die of diarrhoea after drinking it, says UNICEF. But Pakistan’s water is not only contaminated – it is becoming scarce. As such any surplus is quickly lost, said Ahmad, who denounced “a lack of political vision” to counter the nationwide water crisis. In all urban areas, the water table is going down day by day,” warns Muhammad Ashraf, chairman of the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources.

Source: The Express Tribune January 08, 2018 07:07 UTC