Pakistan's water crisis: Buying every drop to stay alive

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Pakistan is facing a worsening clean water crisis. In cities and peri-urban areas, piped water is unreliable or unsafe, forcing millions to depend on costly, often unhygienic tankers and overcrowded filtration plants.

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00:00I've been living here for 3-4 years and there's a lot of issues here.

00:23Sometimes there's a lot of water here and we don't have to wait.

00:27There's a lot of water here and there's a lot of water here and there's a lot of water here.

00:32There's a lot of water here and there's a lot of water here.

00:39There's water here, water here.

00:48There's water here.

00:51There's a lot of water here and there's water here.

00:53can get the water.

00:54They can also use it as the water.

00:56They can use it.

00:57Some people don't even see it.

00:59If it's the water, it's safe or not.

01:00They can then use it.

01:01They can also use it.

01:09The water is just anywhere.

01:13They take the filter with the children and they take the tanker.

01:17So the children have the water.

01:19It's a lot of water.

01:20There are also very bad water.

01:22Where are we from?

01:52In our area, there is no fielded plants in our area.

02:01This area is more than 10,000,000 people.

02:06There is no water facility for it.

02:09I've also seen that there are more Habitatus Seag issues

02:13because I think that it can be water.

02:16But people don't know how it can be aware of it.

02:22Pakistan, I would say that the problem is not availability of water.

02:36It's a management issue.

02:38For the government and some NGOs, those said some water filtration plants in Islamabad,

02:43very few are meeting the standards.

02:45No water monitoring, no quality monitoring and that becomes a problem.

02:49So we need more efficient employees and more will from the government and from the masses.

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