Thus, the scope of nature’s blessings is so wide that it is not possible to count them correctly, but as far as human survival and life is concerned, water is a blessing that is directly related to human life.
Whenever water scarcity is mentioned in relation to Pakistan, the name of Thar, a remote desert of Sindh comes to mind where the biggest problem is drinking water. Absence or very little rainfall is the main reason for water scarcity here. The area of Thar with a population of more than eighteen lakhs is a little more than 21 thousand square kilometers. The extent of this desert can be estimated from here that its boundaries are Umarkot, Thar Parkar, Khapro, Badin, Sanghar, Nawabshah, Khairpur, It extends from Sukkur and Ghotki to Cholistan region of Punjab towards the east. While in the south of this desert, Ran Kuch and the region of India are located.
Here it will not be without interest that only 15% of this desert is in Pakistan while 85% is in India. This desert is one of the few big deserts in the world. This desert also has the uniqueness that a large part of it is lush and green. This desert is also called “friendly desert”. Access to the desert is easy and the people of this region are not only humane but also more ‘animal friendly’.
Availability of water continues to be the biggest problem here, due to which hundreds of children die prematurely every year due to problems like famine and malnutrition. Generally, water wells are constructed here from every village. Some are located at a distance and are built keeping in view the needs of the village or area. From these wells, the householders draw water using bullocks, camels or donkeys in the ancient way.
This work is the responsibility of the men of the house or family, while bringing this water to the house is the responsibility of the women, but the tragedy of digging wells is that every year many people die during the digging of wells. Due to which, although the administration has imposed a ban, people are continuing to dig wells without taking this ban into account.
Now, with the passage of time, the method of extracting water through tubewells is also becoming a practice, due to which the centuries-old tradition of women walking in rows with pitchers and pots filled with water on their heads is dying out. Scarcity and rarity of drinking water in thermals has become a problem not only for the people here but also the birds here are affected by it.
Therefore, if you go to any village in Thar, you will see beautiful peacocks roaming freely there, which return to the forests as soon as they come from house to house. After getting water from the nearby forests, they return to their abodes in the wars.
Facebook and Twitter users know very well that the people of Thar have been crying for lack of water for the past several years. Will the hidden minerals worth billions of dollars in Thar be extracted by watering Thar? Water, which is life, is the fundamental right of the inhabitants of Thar which is included in the duties of the government. And then it is not such an impossible task.
Because the lack of water eventually takes the form of famine, which leads to the death of many lives every year. Therefore, whenever there is a shortage of thermal water and famine, the provincial government goes to great lengths to provide comfort to the people. She tries her best to divert people’s attention by announcing projects.
A few years ago, when many lives, including innocent children, were lost due to drought in Thar, the officials never tired of mentioning the plans of seven and a half hundred RO plants in a proud manner and kept telling the people this promise. That the water shortage in Thar will be eliminated forever. Although more than eight billion rupees were spent on these projects, most of them were closed due to wrong planning and lack of attention. Can’t remove the shortage but no attention was given.
Nagarparkar is the area of Thar desert which is most affected by water scarcity in Thar. In June and July, the inhabitants of this place yearn for a drop of water because the water crisis becomes severe in June and July, which not only kills human beings but also kills a large number of precious animals every year. Is.
So, some time ago, a promise was made by the government to control the water shortage by building small dams in Nagarparkar with ten billion rupees, but unfortunately, as usual, this project also died prematurely like other projects. Your example is mocking the compulsions of the people of Thar. Even though there were many rains during these ten years, even one of these ill-planned dams could not fill completely with water. It has been our tragedy as a whole that we divert most of the country’s resources towards the centres.
Center whether at the provincial level or at the federal level. Remote areas are still out of our priorities, under which areas like Thar are deprived of feeling. So now it is necessary that the government realizes the basic problems of the time and the seriousness of the matter and solves this long-standing problem on a priority basis.
