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Climate Change
Poverty, lack of portable water among major causes of stunting: report
KARACHI: Chronic poverty, poor access to water, poor hygiene and sanitation practices, seasonal migration, early marriages, low birth spacing, lack…
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Climate Change
Faults in #pipelines affect #water supply to parts of #Karachi
#KARACHI: #Water supply to parts of Karachi remained affected on Thursday after Two 72 inch diameter lines of Karachi Water…
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Climate Change
Auction for 6 govt hydrants: #KW&SB completes first phase of technical bids
#KARACHI: The Procurement Committee Hydrants Cell of KW&SB has completed the first phase of technical bids for the auction of…
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Valuing Water
Six months on, #flood victims still wait for elusive govt #help, says SUP chief
#DADU: The Sindh United Party president Syed Zain Shah has said that flood survivors are still waiting for elusive government…
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Climate Change
#Pakistan needs $600m to prevent #climatedamage: study
#KARACHI: Pakistan needs to invest at least $600 million in adaptation measures to prevent #climatedamage and avoid a slowdown in…
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Climate Change
World Bank adaptation funds slept through Pakistan’s record flooding
A $100 million project was meant to protect Karachi slumdwellers from flooding, but instead made many homeless before work stalled…
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Climate Change
A.P. Moller – Maersk supports flood relief efforts in Pakistan
The unprecedented floods that hit Pakistan during this year’s monsoon left devastation and victims in desperate need of immediate aid…
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Climate Change
Flood-affected families: Lari plans to build emergency shelters for 1m households
KARACHI: Pakistan’s first female architect, and CEO of UN-recognized Heritage Foundation Pakistan Professor Yasmeen Lari on Monday said she has…
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Climate Change
Over 1.1m farm animals lost in floods, seminar told
KARACHI: Highlighting their concerns over incidents of animal cruelty and absence of any state initiatives for animal welfare in decades,…
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Climate Change
Pakistan may become unbearably hot by end of the century
New UNDP report on COP27 eve predicts number of ‘extremely hot days’ could rise to 179 by year 2099 •…
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