like a cultural shift is underway in the region. the fight for equality has begun in 45 minutes on d w. sometimes books are more exciting than real life. raring to read. oh. but what if there's no escape? do w literature list. 0100 german ma street? ah, the himalayan blay c. as in pakistan, a melting away faster than ever by the turn of the century, one 3rd of their ice sheet could have disappeared. the accumulated water will burst

through like a soon ami. the ongoing battle for watering kashmir, potentially a major flash point between india and pakistan is affecting the water needs of more than 2000000000 people in south asia. meanwhile, an increasing number of heat waves in mega cities, a driving up water consumption and coping with dwindling supplies has become a real struggle for them in here and for a bigger theft here. and the government is a part of this. of course, i don't see many bucks on is not about it. it can a giant tree planting action helped to save the melting glasses we want that we want to restore and being hacked is in pakistan with nearly $20000000.00 inhabitants in its metropolitan area. karachi is

pakistan's largest city and the country's economic center but in july 2015, the busy port city in the south was almost brought to a standstill as an extreme heat wave reeked havoc in its neighborhoods. with temperatures reaching 45 degrees celsius. more than a 1000 people died of dehydration and heat stroke. in karachi alone, hospitals were poorly equipped to handle the surge of heat stroke victims the mortgage a busty shaheed hospital quickly of a field leading to bodies being buried in mass graves. the nightmare from 2015 still haunts karachi. locals

2019 the subcontinent again experienced an extreme heat wave. this time with average daily temperatures reaching 50 degrees celsius. the provincial government was forced to declare a state of emergency. but this time around the heat stroke would at a bussey shaheed hospital. so no debts among its patients though all of and, and i the little room when the little bit confirming some sam dba, the previous hate wave came suddenly paper were not mentally prepared. i be the orders max friday of pick again love the google and of that was the most important element. and the reason why the number of patients was so high and why too many

people lost their lives. i mother was making their nest program of your niss. it knew leave me in the years since we have had several heat waves in karachi. but because there was greater awareness about how to combat heat stroke, there weren't as many debts as reported in 2015. only model number of fisher ne biggest benefit was 4. 5. today, the karachi administration is better equipped to deal with the problem on particularly hot days. mobile units with water sprinklers provide much needed cooling and play a vital role in averting fatalities. despite heats reaching 50 degrees, this seems to be the new normal and international climate report places pockets

done among the 10 countries most affected by the climate crisis. me in big cities like karachi lack of trees, paved roads and toll buildings increase the heat further. in addition, the population is growing immensely in unplanned and densely populated neighborhoods . can i, geez, the, the track of example of population explosion. small you, closer to 50 with the gamma gap between city and it is now the largest. so population, you have more people, you need more water, you are more shops and factories you need while also miss management garage, you did not manage to prevent and swarm of courses with rising

temperatures, the population of karachi is consuming more and more water. the city would need several 1000000000 late as every day to cover the needs of its residence. but the local authorities can only provide about half of what is needed with. ready so what does the karachi water board think about this problem? ready michigan, i met off my hand on the flag, i could i, it's a distribution problem. will bottle karachi is daily water need is nearly 5000000000 leaders can be the distribution process is affected by a bap or ation will you? but also by leakage and theft will come will be this reduces our output to only 1800000000 leaders a day use from dick is kind of one. so we're left with only one 3rd of the available amount of one. but the karachi water and sewage board is doing all it can

to maintain the supply, which is the head because water is scarce and difficult to access the black market flourishes. according to the cities authorities, 35 percent of water is lost before reaching the consumers. where does it go? may be koran cheese water thieves can provide some answers to that question. one of them has been persuaded to lead us to the scene of an ongoing criminal operation. the water thief takes us to a crowded slum and we film the encounter with a hidden camera. while filming the kingpin arrives and agrees to explain how the scheme behind the war that works. with him he divert the

stolen water into an industrial area. bonnie: where is it? come from? we drilled a well here. you bought away as a boy, you're distributing well water anger voting up on you figure. yes. the water is channeled through underground tunnels to a canal and there we have water storage tank. i think it from there, the water wholesalers distribute the water to the industrial sector. money eager. that's normal. did a little over the normal low and i'm have you the low low to yes. we are also stealing the water from this neighborhood. the water supplied by the government to this neighborhood is being stolen and sold to the industry, but rather exactly where the water from the well is mixed with stolen government water and sold to the industry is gonna be by good in it. don't pity this neighborhood. have watered money, her, me the money, not as much as it should know that he gonna do though. him good because you're stealing a 1000000000. yes. every time i think, i mean that's the deal with my new done figures already. i was only like 70 percent

of the water is diverted and 30 percent. i thought you would also let him. he said, my daughter order was said, all the officials of the water board are complicit with money to be when the water is sold to the industry. they make money that have been that simple as that simple, the water mafia makes a lot of money. ah, why not easy? or do you collect rent for this connection? yes. and let me go. how much amanda? between a $1150.00, vermont are with her mom, yolanda or his mom and the local governments. part of this, of course, it done with it as a how else would we be able to do this? we pay off the police and officials involved as that. so who gets a cut of water board elise? and who else? every department, including the chairman of the water board in we're going to so he takes us to the place where he steals the water, which he then resells that exorbitant prices while paying kickbacks to government

officials are the only ones jumping him on mr. blake, and forgot to where ever there's a gap between supply and demand, sugar. these things occur. ishmael, whether it's wheat can be sugar, rice or other commodities. oscar. it will only stop when we have enough water in karachi optic. but i won't deny that there are corrupt people in every departmental gauge of kind of global d. her department gl theft corruption, and decay limit access to water for millions of people. the losses to public funds run into the millions. the stolen water is diverted from the pool to the rich who can pay more for the scanner resource. a 2018 un report predicts that by 2050 some 5000000000 people will live in regions at risk of water scarcity. the u.

n. projects that water shortages will displace hundreds of millions of people as early as 2030 temperatures in south asia, arising because of an increase in global greenhouse gas emissions. the heat is melting the himalayas ice cap, because this area supplies water to large parts of the sub continent. it's also known as south asia water tower. the glazes in northern pakistan's disputed kashmir region. a part of the largest ice sheet existing anywhere in the world outside the 2 polls. but these glaciers retreating at previously unknown speeds in gormet, a village in northern pakistan, the effects are already showing and according to a 2019 study, 36 percent of the regions glaciers could have melted away by the end of this century. clay c ologist

said tara puffin researches the sheets of ice surrounding the himalayas. this was once the idea we cared. plenty of water frandisco flesh it because the glacier was much higher and you went up to their level of dis, marines. you can see here this moraine, it shows that they are the low l was much higher. so that was, it was, are that he charging these are edition. jen is the glacier that weird is sensitive to climate. the ex, according to the template, yet in the precipitation, when it's the heart, it melts salat. since 1988, the snow line in northern pakistan has receded by 1 point one kilometers. a decline that scientists had expected to play out over a 1000 year period has taken less than 30 years. and if global emissions remain at current levels,

all of south asia ice could disappear. these glaciers are also important for these families where the living here would defend on these agricultural for their livelihoods. because you can see this, sir, it. this is witty, embellished yet a deficit video. less than all in these plane areas live at this glacier that people are pecked, you say that it cuts yet, so it's not possible without the water from these glitches ah, villages like this one. nestled far up on the hill side of the kara core, a mountains are at high risk lakes that form in the glaciers often breach the ice causing flash floods that sweep away. everything in their path shall cut ali is a community leader and local guide. at gould keen glacier, he tells us that pollution causes suit to gather on the white glaciers which then

leads to the speeding up of the melting process. what he a blake go? what a g baganda, brooke, come up go. blake glacier there are only a few black glaciers and gill get walton. we got most are white leg michigan, mcgrew and there are just 6 or 7 black glaciers. was me one of them to shoot is the go cannot, dickie was goes to the snow is completely covered with mud or escape when the glacier, mowgli gesture goes, it brings mud and debris to the surface. but finally got the i've got a are you up up on a vera? yea, i am by as if buddha eyes j. we see here that all the ice around it melts and flows into this whole snow which is connected to the river further down. it will get that he at that point when boulders block its way, austin, the collected water,

comes rushing down like a title one. if you look jewish with a bunny here will exactly come in june 2019 a glacial lake foamed in the neighboring. she's pear. glacier, the government hastily constructed a concrete wool to prevent the water from overflowing the banks, but there was no stop the surge of water that eventually came rushing towards the village. however, in 50 years time, this region is expected to face mass water shortages when it's glassy, has become too small to provide. the water needed 5 major rivers flow through pakistan. the induce jalen, shtaw ravi and saint luke all run across the plains of punjab. the rivers are formed by snow. mel.