Water level in Manchar Lake starts receding

DADU/JAMSHORO: The water level has started receding in Manchar Lake, the country’s largest freshwater lake located west of the Indus River in Jamshoro and Dadu districts of Sindh, the irrigation department said on Tuesday.

“The level of flood water in the lake has dropped by two inches to 122.5 feet,” officials from the department told the media.

“The water gushing from Manchar Lake has submerged 500 villages of 10 union councils in the area,” according to the department.

The irrigation department further said that the water is rapidly discharging into Indus River from four breaches administered at flood protection embankments in Sehwan taluka of Jamshoro.

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100,000 cusecs of water was discharging from breaches into the Indus River, the department added.

The Flood Forecasting Division’s website showed there was a high-level flood in the Indus at Kotri.

Hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes in a disaster blamed on climate change and estimated to have caused losses of about $10 billion, disrupting the lives of nearly 33 million.

The water of flash floods in Sindh’s districts on the western bank of the river, still standing as a mammoth lake due to absence of drainage.

The water still standing at Kotri, Manjhand, Lakki and Sann towns of the Jamshoro district.

Thousands of people have evacuated from katcha area in Thatta district as the flood stream from Kotri moving towards Indus delta to enter in the Arabian Sea.

Several flood-affected people have taken refuge at river dykes after their villages submerged in the water. The flooding in river has badly hit Ghorabari, Gulail, Domani, Tando Hafiz Shah, Rajo Nizamani, Soof Shoro areas.

Floodwater has damaged crops and thousands of mud houses in the area.