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Pakistan floods: Six months on Providing clean water with Mercy Corps
Nekbakhat: When the flood came we were sleeping in our homes.
The water came suddenly, we ran away to save our lives.
We were crying and searching for a safe place.
We walked to Wakro and the water was all around us.
We and our children were very hungry.
There were 50 houses in our village but they were all washed away by the flood.
Not only the houses but everything inside them also.
Manzoor Hussain, Mercy Corps
The people have started coming back again in October and one of the major problems that
they are facing is clean drinking water and sanitation.
Through DFID funding we are implementing a water and sanitation programme for these people
and other populations in the effected areas.
We have established this water filtration treatment system here, where water gets treated,
stored and then transported through
tractor, bowsers, tankers to the different locations of the town where people need the water.
Punhal: After the floods we had to drink the flood water, which was contaminated.
There were outbreaks of sickness, dysentery, and food poisoning.
After that water tanks and clean drinking water was provided.
This clean water is helping us to stay healthy.
It's free of bacteria and contamination. The diseases are under control now.
We had no other source of drinking water and now we have clean drinking water.
If you help us with our revival process, our future will be prosperous.
As with the help you have provided us earlier, we purchased seed and now we will
be working on our fields and cultivating them. This will increase our earnings and
we will be able to keep our children healthy and educate them.
The UK government has committed £134 million to help people affected by the monsoon floods in Pakistan.
UKaid has provided shelter, safe drinking water, basic health care, toilets and sanitation for millions of people.
The UK public has donated a further £68 million through the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) appeal.
To find out more about how the UK government is helping Pakistan to recover from the floods visit:
www.dfid.gov.uk/pakistan-floods-six-months