Water Pump Project
Sindh province is largely a vast desert area, and eventually gets low rainfall. Interior Sindh is the worst affected area where drinking water is still a big challenge. Large population is poor and live in villages far away from cities.
During our work in interior Sindh we have always encounter with the issue regarding basic need of life CLEAN DRINKING WATER, the impure drinking water is the basic cause of death and several diseases in adults and for very special in infants and children. Women and children have to travel several kilometers to gain the water which is so impure and dangerous.
Impure water is one of the major threats to public health in Pakistan. Drinking water quality is poorly managed and monitored. Pakistan ranks at number 80 among 122 nations regarding drinking water quality.
Impure water causes 40% of deaths in Pakistan annually. Around 62 percent 0f Pakistan's urban and 84 percent of its rural population do not treat their water, resulting in 100 million cases of diarrheal diseases registered in hospitals, with 40 percent of deaths attributed to drinking polluted water. A survey estimates that each year nearly 53,000 Pakistani children die of bacterial diarrhea from contaminated water.
Several children die with thirst and hunger, many minor girls, boys and women are sexually abused while wandering in search of water. In 2021 as per dawn news 477 child abuse cases were registered in sindh only, while the total figure with unreported cases is very high.
Our Water Hand Pump Project was initiated in interior Sindh in villages where children and women wander in search of water. They must walk for miles and carry water for their daily use, but despite these difficult efforts, the water they get is unclean and unhealthy. It is stagnant water where animals bathe and drink. Water hand pumps installed by the NTP team bring a smile of ease to these struggling women and children, and they do not have to travel in search of water and get neat and clean underground water.
Nehemiah Team is looking for partners to stand with us in this humanitarian cause and provide people with clean drinking water. For more details, please email us.
