Author: Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio for trust.org: HUNZA-NAGAR VALLEY, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Flood-prone streams that until recently threatened the lives, incomes and properties of mountain communities in Pakistan’s Hunza-Nagar valley are now much less dangerous, and are even helping boost harvests, after work enabling them to better withstand weather extremes.
The natural water channels have been reinforced and widened to allow more glacial melt water to pass through them in the summer season and more water from precipitation in the rainy season, without overflowing.
The improvements were carried out in 2011 by the Baltit Rural Support Organisation (BRSO), with technical and financial backing from the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP), in four villages in this picturesque valley in northern Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan province, at a cost of 250,000 rupees ($2,315). Local people supported the project by contributing labour.
via Flood-resilient streams protect mountain farms, villagers in north Pakistan.
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