Sindh is now the province to receive the least amount of rainfall
KARACHI: Climate threat is for real. One does not need to do much but to witness the dry and hot weather in Karachi and adjoining areas where temperature touched 38 degrees Celsius the other day. In Punjab province and other parts of the country it often rains.
Sindh is now the province to receive the least amount of rainfall, and this well explains the situation in drought-hit Tharparkar district of the province. In the metropolitan city of Karachi, alongside the dry weather and lack of urban town planning and sudden sprout of high-rise residential buildings and housing projects have only added to water and traffic management issues.
While South Asian countries are not doing enough to mitigate climate changes, they are the ones to bear the most severe brunt of it. It is about time that the Sindh government walking in the footsteps of the federal government initiated a plantation drive as it will only take years for such initiatives to produce the desired impact and lessen the severity of weather conditions.
Hafsa Alam
Published in The Express Tribune, October 21st, 2018.
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