Peshawar, (Urdupoint / Pakistan Point News -26th July, 2025) Every morning, Suraj now climbs a dusty hills of Charat in the district, 32 -Years Alt Omar Khan pick up the pick up thread can covers a distance of 10 km in search of clean drinking water.
A farmer by business, Omar’s land was no longer in the form of barren filled with his time and strength, but not by tiling the soil, but necessary, to drink safe to bring his family domesticly by day missions.
“I imagined that it would be my life,” “We had Wales, we had rivers. But after 2022 floods, everything changed.
Omar Khyber is one of thousands in Pakhtunkhwa, who is struggling to find clear water in view of increasing environmental stress, growing temporary, growing temporary and rapidly growing population.
As areas like Peshawar, Charsada, and now, inhabitants are lying down with inherent groundwater which is an invisible but is a time limit of recurring floods.
Since the population of Pakistan has increased over 242 million years earlier this year, which is shining at an inauspicious pace on agriculture and food resources.
Experts warned that the country could be 400 million people by 2050, which could lead to unbearable stress on Alleed rare water resources and agricultural production.
Climate change is further enhancing the issue, in which irregular rains, frequent floods and melting glaciers have to reduce the freshwater systems of the country.
Professor (R) from Peshawar University, Dr. Tight Malik, Pakistan has long -faced the risk forest harvesting and prolonged water reservoirs.
Malik told the app, “The availability of per capita water has reduced more than 5,200 cubic meters in 1962.” “Without immediate intervention, we are not only talking about water scarcity, but also about large -scale food deficiency, disease and displacement.”
Pabi Novashera in the pediatric ward of the government hospital, Dr. Sarzamin Khan, a senior medical expert, treats the increasing number of children suffering from waterborne diseases.
“Diarrhea, cholera, skin infection – now there are almost daily cases, now in the season of Monson” Dr. Sarzamin Khan said. “Children are the weakest. The contaminated water prevents their growth and leads to malnutrition, inherent in the al -AD underprivileged communities.”
Despite facing 22 major floods in the last 55 years, Pakistan has constructed less than 150 dams since its establishment -an early figure compared to countries such as Chenn, which is more than 22,000, and India, over 5,000.
A visitor will be disappointed to see thousands of acres of barren land in the desert of Mardon and Swabi districts.
The un–looking million hectares of productive land is gradually disserted to the world for either mismanagement or climate change, which affects the economy, agricultural productivity and food security.
More than 110 countries, including Pakistan and the world’s two-thirds agricultural land, are facing desertification, land erosion and drought challenges.
Every year, an estimated economic loss of $ 42 billion and six million hectares of productive land is lost due to the decline and desecration of the land by affecting overdoor agriculture worldwide.
For data of durable land management program (SLMP-PASE I), about 1.5 to 2.5 million hectares of irrigated land, 3.5 to 4 million hectares of rainfall, agriculture less than rainfall, and 35 million hectares of Rangland are becoming either a barren or non-productive due to DLDI.
Tauheed Khan, a retired forest conservator, emphasized the immediate need for smal and medium -sized dams to store for agriculture and human consumption.
“Large dams are important, but they take time and money,” small dams can be built faster and are ideal for areas such as KP.
He said that it was mandatory to direct the needs of new dams
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to the direction of Small Dams, 56 small dams have already been completed, more than 30 are running. These dams promise irrigation, potable water and flood control for millions.
Among them is Mohammed Dam, a mega project was expected to change the water landscape of KP. Once completed, it will store flood-confident areas such as 1.293 million acres of water, Peshawar and comprehensive, and provide 300 million gallons of clean water daily.
Nevertheless, even with projects in Moion, experts warned that Pakistan lives seriously behind the schedule. The National Water Policy 2018 predicted that the availability of per capita water will be in the future in the future, in a few years, the country pushes from water to the lump sum.
“We are farmers, but we can do because we are humans, but we cannot live without it” Omar said.
Their voice is calm, but his eye catchs a calm despair, a reflection of a solution where climate change, population pressure and poor water management are not only a threat to life, but a threat to life.
As the temperature rises and the water sources dry up, Pakistan stands at an intersection. Dam construction, policy reform and permanent water use without bold action – like millions
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