According to www.dawn.com, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a country located in Southern Asia with an estimated population of 225.2Million people. Khairpur is a district in the Pakistani province of Sindh in the Sukkur Division. At the 2017 census, it was the fifth most populated district in the province with 2.4 million inhabitants. Despite Pakistan having more glaciers than anywhere else in the world and its location in the Indus River Basin, Pakistan is at risk of acute water scarcity. Its surface and groundwater sources are both increasingly stressed and severe drought conditions persist in parts of the country due to a lack of rainfall. Water is severely polluted by human, agricultural and industrial waste.

In Khairpur like in other parts of Pakistan, there exist very limited water sources. Worse is the fact that these sources are often polluted and unclean. Consequently, inhabitants are forced to trek very long distances just in search of portable water.

 

The scourging effects of desertification such as extreme droughts and water scarcity make life unbearable for these inhabitants. Some even die due to thirst. Children are at high risk of mortality because of inadequate sanitation which can lead to diarrheal diseases such as Cholera, typhoid fever and other waterborne diseases.

In response to the long prevailing water crisis suffered in Khairpur district and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in general, Zion A Happy Home Foundation has provided a modern water source as a sustainable solution to help substitute for the existing unclean polluted water sources, to shorten the long distances Khairpur inhabitants travel in search of water and reduce the possible prevalence of diarrheal diseases brought about by inadequate sanitation. We intend to do more for other regions in Pakistan with the belief that the water crisis can be solved if we take collective sustainable actions to this effect.