{"id":28247,"date":"2025-11-20T21:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28247"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:04:38","slug":"preparing-for-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28247","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for floods"},"content":{"rendered":"
Climate change continues to be a serious threat to Pakistan, and the latest warning from NDMA only reinforces how urgent the situation has become. With projections suggesting 22-26 per cent above-normal rainfall during the 2026 monsoon, the country is once again staring at the possibility of large-scale displacement, economic losses and avoidable tragedy. Each year, weather extremes grow sharper, yet our policies and infrastructure struggle to keep pace.<\/p>\n

The sheer scale of vulnerability is evident from this year’s monsoon alone, during which 3.1 million people had to be relocated to safe areas. Such staggering numbers are less a sign of preparedness and more an indictment of how deeply exposed communities remain. The NDMA’s emphasis on improved disaster management \u2014\u00a0from regulating river flows to restricting tourism during the high-risk months of June and July \u2014\u00a0is an understanding that passive reactions are no longer enough.<\/p>\n

Pakistan’s early warning system, which alerts provinces six to eight months in advance, is a critical tool. But its value depends entirely on whether provincial authorities act on these alerts. Weekly advisories must translate this into practical steps: reinforcing embankments, clearing drains, relocating settlements from riverbeds and ensuring that relief supplies and rescue teams are in place before the first cloudburst hits.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s directive for accelerated implementation of the Ministry of Climate Change’s short-term plan is a necessary push, but it will mean little without consistent follow-through. Likewise, convening the National Water Council desperately needs national-level planning on water management to avert the disastrous flooding patterns witnessed in 2010 and 2022.<\/p>\n

What however remains uncertain is whether Pakistan will finally act with the seriousness the crisis demands. Above-normal rainfall does not have to lead to above-normal disaster, but only if we prepare timely and decisively.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Climate change continues to be a serious threat to Pakistan, and the latest warning from NDMA only reinforces how urgent the situation has become. With projections suggesting 22-26 per cent above-normal rainfall during the 2026 monsoon, the country is once again staring at the possibility of large-scale displacement, economic losses and avoidable tragedy. Each year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}