IMAGINE, you live in a city, where all the basic amenities for a sustainable living are available. Education, Health, economic opportunities and pleasant weather simultaneously ease your way of living.

Yet, all of a sudden, you have to call a tanker to fulfill your most basic need, i.e. Water. Islamabad is regarded as the 4th most beautiful capital in the world; yet, almost every other house in the city has to call a water tanker to merely fulfil the basic needs of the family. Likewise, Karachi and Lahore are the metropolitan cities of the country; nevertheless, availability of usable water has become a luxurious commodity for both of these cities. Likewise, people que up in long-lines on tube wells and water pumps in the rural as well as in the urban regions to fill up their containers, just for their daily basic use. This challenge has not merely become a mental fatigue for people, but has also severely affected the health of a large chunk of population.

Over the course of last two decades, the water shortage in the country has reached from 11% in 2004 to 31% in 2025. Presently, Pakistan is below the 1000m3 per person threshold, which classifies it as one of the most water scarce country in the........

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