10 million lack safe water six months after Pakistan floods, UN
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Six months after the catastrophic flood ravaged Pakistan over 10 million people lacks safe drinking water in flood affected areas.
Families living in flood-hit areas have “no alternative but to drink and use potentially disease-ridden water”, the UN children’s agency, or UNICEF, said in the report on Tuesday.
“Every day, millions of girls and boys in Pakistan are fighting a losing battle against preventable waterborne diseases and the consequential malnutrition,” said Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF’s representative in Pakistan.
Waterborne diseases and malnutrition are two devastating issues that can lead many people to death. The Pakistani government and the international community needs to help the citizens to avoid an epidemic in those affected areas.
Pakistan’s worst floods began in June due to heavy rains. They killed at least 1,739 people, including 647 children, and affected 33 million people.
It should be noted that prior to the catastrophic rainfall in Pakistan, the affected areas lacked safe drinking water. This with the flood, it's become a major challenge that has affected about 5.4 million people and 2.5 million children who have resorted to getting water from ponds and wells in the areas.
Getting drinking water from ponds and wells that were previously affected by flood is very dangerous and harmful to the health of citizens who are exposed to waterborne diseases.
“Only 36 percent of the country’s water was considered safe for consumption despite the country’s drinking water supply system covering 92 per cent of the population,” the report said.
According to UNICEF, most of the families that live close to stagnant water and after the flooding can lead to making them vulnerable to waterborne diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dengue and malaria.
UNICEF said malnutrition is associated with half of all child deaths in Pakistan. More than 1.5 million boys and girls are already severely malnourished, it said, and those numbers are expected to rise in the absence of safe water and proper sanitation.
Another thing that can get the people into problem of waterborne diseases was the issue of open defecation in flood affected areas. Open defecation has increased by 14 percent and is very dangerous to girl and women.
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