Kamran Khamiso Sujawal
For the past two years, the coastal population of Sujawal district has been plagued by acute water scarcity, primarily due to the irrigation department’s slackness and the contractor’s failure to complete the lining of the Sher Khana water channel. As a result, 20 dehs in Taluka Jati, Sujawal, have been facing a drought-like situation, with water supply from the main channel suspended for the past two years.
Local residents attribute the delay to the contractor’s indifferent attitude and subpar work by laborers engaged in the World Bank-funded project. The concrete lining of the main water channel, Sherkhana Mori, which supplies water to over 100 villages in the coastal areas of Sujawal, has been delayed due to the contractor’s lack of effort and defective work.
The ongoing water scarcity has forced hundreds of villagers to migrate to urban areas in search of better livelihoods, as their agricultural land has become barren due to the persistent shortage of irrigation water. Villagers from the affected areas, like Wali Muhammad Temro, have revealed that they have not received sufficient water to irrigate their land for the past two years.
