Pakistan: 200 people evacuated by chopper after a drive

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The dramatic situation in northern Pakistan - 200 people were cut off from the planet in the Chilas territory of Gilgit-Baltistan state due to the element. Military helicopters evacuated the imprisoned residents. Emergency services advise against travelling north of the country due to the threat of landslides.

A resin in northern Pakistan caused 200 people to be cut off from the planet in Chilas District, Gilgit-Baltistan Province. The evacuation was carried out utilizing military helicopters.

Emergency services issued a informing against traveling north of the country. There may be landslides in the region, which consequence in the anticipation of access to the village being cut off.

Meteorologists inform against repetition

Earlier, meteorologists warned that it was impossible to regulation out the repetition of the 2022 drama. A 3rd of Pakistan’s territory was then underwater.

More than 1,700 people were killed as a consequence of these floods and estimated as many as 750,000 head of cattle. The water destroyed tens of thousands of square kilometers of arable land.

"Water Ocean" fell on the country

The Pakistan authorities called the then "water ocean" situation that fell on the country. The size of the losses was estimated at tens of billions of dollars.

The period of monsoons, a periodic shower, begins at the turn of June and July and lasts until September. Despite the dense rainfall it brings all year, Pakistan is suffering from a worsening water shortage.

Dramatic decline in water resources

According to the Pakistani Institute for improvement Economics, the country accounts for little than 0.5 percent of the world's renewable water resources, although it has about 250 million inhabitants. By the mediate of the last century, the country had crucial water resources of 5,260 cubic metres per capita.

However, they contracted systematically - in 1981 they were already below 2500, and in 1991 - below 1,700 cubic metres. 3 years ago, WAPDA (a water management institution) estimated that only 908 cubic metres of water resources per capita.

(PAP) Note: This article was edited with Artificial Intelligence.

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