Flood victims: UNICEF to dispatch safe drinking water

Using funds from emergency loan facility, Unicef and its partners have begun providing safe water via water trucking

ISLAMABAD: Unicef has begun reaching out to 183,000 flood-affected people every day with safe drinking water in Punjab, Balochistan and Sindh. Using funds from an emergency loan facility, Unicef and its partners have begun providing safe water via water trucking and have also installed water bladders in Jacobabad, with additional bladders due to arrive shortly across flood-hit areas of Sindh. The fund is also assisting the government with life-saving health and nutrition interventions.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 2^nd, 2012.