Flood Situation in Pakistan

The toll from Pakistan’s deadliest floods in decades exceeded 1,200 as government agencies struggled to reach survivors. It have recorded 1,227 dead so far and this will increase to as high as 3,000. The floods have affected a million people overall the Pakistan.
The worst of the flooding occurred in a 160-kilometer swath of mountain valleys and irrigated plains in northwest Pakistan where the government has been fighting the growing influence of the Taliban and allied militants for much of the past decade. Pakistani troops used helicopters and boats to reach people trapped by floodwaters as local television networks showed survivors clinging to trees or debris in muddy, raging mountain rivers. Armed forces chief Ashraf Pervez Kayani visited flooded areas of the Swat Valley.
Pakistan’s national weather service predicted a 60 percent chance of thunderstorms and rain over most of the country today. Floodwaters are moving downstream in the Indus River watershed, from the worst hit province, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, formerly known as North-West Frontier Province, to Pakistan’s three other provinces Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan.

Communication networks in many areas are still disrupted. Initial assessments indicate that Charsadda, Nowshera and Swat are amongst the worst-affected districts. Other badly hit areas, including Lower and Upper Dir, remain largely inaccessible to humanitarian actors. An estimated 150,000 families require emergency assistance, such as food, clean drinking water, tents, and medical services. As the water level recedes, measures to prevent water-borne diseases will also become a priority. Rescue remains a key priority in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa for 27,000 people who are still waiting to be evacuated from flooded areas. Access remains the main obstacle in terms of providing assistance to the affected areas of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. The floods have significantly damaged roads and bridges – for example, all major bridges crossing the Swat River have been swept away. Roads, including the Islamabad-Peshawar motorway, have been seriously damaged.
We can see people drowning but we can’t go into the water because of its high pressure. The relief efforts of everyone combined is only 5 percent of what’s required. Thousands of packaged meals from the U.S., the first part of $10 million in emergency aid promised by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are being distributed, Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said in a statement. The U.S. is rushing helicopters, boats, pre-fabricated bridges, mobile water treatment units and food supplies to affected areas, Clinton said in a statement yesterday. The Sindh government has ordered residents along the banks of the Indus River to be evacuated.
As Pakistan was suffering from the lack of water if we have some new dams then we can store this water and, then we can produce electricity, water for crops can be storage, escape from the damaged done by the flood. But unfortunately our government focusing on rental power plants that are much more expensive, on the other way we can produce the cheapest energy by the help of dame. The strategies of the governments are out of our mind.

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