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Pakistan Water Crisis

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Water crisis: QAT activists demonstrate in Pakistan's Mithi town

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Feb 26, 2022, at 04:39 am

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Mithi, Pakistan: Qaumi Awami Tehreek (QAT) activists and members of the general public demonstrated in Pakistan's Mithi town recently against the worsening water crisis situation, media reports said on Friday.

Local QAT leaders told media persons at the protest as quoted by Dawn News that functionaries of Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) were squarely responsible for the nagging water crisis in the town in particular and in the entire district in general.

“Almost all reverse osmosis plants installed at a cost of over Rs15 billion have ceased to function due to massive corruption by both the officials of PHED and the private firms, which were responsible for their upkeep,” they said.

They claimed people were forced to buy water cans at exorbitant rates due to complete failure of waterworks.

Those people who could not afford to buy water were forced to drink toxic water from wells.

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