Hazards and Disaster Management

1. Hazards and Disaster
Management

3. “Drought is most costly natural disaster that
can lead to widespread impacts, including
water and food crises”
• Metrological Drought Hazard Profile
• Hydrological Drought - slow onset
• Agricultural Drought - prolonged duration
- widespread

4. • Semi-Arid areas are more prone.
• Severity of Drought is intensifies by “Over-
cropping, Over-grazing & Deforestation”.
• Rapid population of growth can have a direct
impact on size & magnitude of Drought.
• Major droughts recur in 12-16 years cycle and
lesser versions every 4-6 years in the vulnerable
regions.
Drought may results in secondary NATURAL HAZARDS
such as
1. Dust Storms
2. Malnutrition related diseases
3. Wildfire

5. Direct
 loss of income
 social dislocation
 famine/malnutrition/death
Indirect
 loss of rural and urban revenues
 fire hazard, loss of water access

6. • Thar Desert
• Kirthar range in Sindh
• Rangelands of Baluchistan
• Cholistan Desert
• Thal Desert
1999-2001 Drought:
• Affected the entire country but Balochistan was worst
affected followed by Sindh.
• 3 million people affected and 2.5 million livestock lost.
• 58 districts seriously affected, or which 23 were from
Balochistan.
• Agricultural growth registered negative 2.5%. Losses
estimated at $1.2 billion; economic growth retarded by
2.6%.

8. • Thar home to a population of 1,299,735, has been the
most severely affected, where 817 persons have perished
over the last several months.
• Since the beginning of 2014 due to a combination of
chronic malnutrition, a lack of access to effective health
facilities, lower than average rainfall in Chachro, Diplo,
Khinser, Islamkot, Mithi tehsils (sub-districts), and an
outbreak of sheep pox which has killed thousands of small
animals.

9. • According to the Joint UN Needs Assessment, several
districts have been severely affected by extreme water
scarcity (62% in Jamshoro and 100% in Tharparkar),
and it has resulted in reduced harvest by 34-53% and
livestock by 48%. (UNICEF, 30 Jun 2016)

17.  Structural / Physical Measures
appropriate crops, dams or engineering
projects.
 Non-Structural Measures
policies, awareness, knowledge development,
public commitment, and operating practices
undertaken to limit the adverse impacts of
drought.

18. National Drought
Steering Committee
Provincial Drought
Steering Committee
Regional Drought Task
Force (DTF)
NDMA Drought
Monitoring Cell
• Planning Commission (Lead)
• Ministry of Water and Power
• Ministry of Climate Change
• Ministry of Food Security
• Ministry of Finance
• National Health Emergency
Preparedness and Response Network
• WAPDA
• NARC
• NDMA
• PMD
• PCRWR
• Planning & Development Department
(Lead)
• Irrigation Department
• Food and Livestock Department
• Health Department
• Education Department
• PDMA
• Community Welfare Department
• Social Welfare Department
• Provincial Nutrition Cell
• Commissioner (Lead)
• DCs
• DHO Health
• Livestock
• Food Controller
• Revenue Department
• Social Welfare
• Community Development Department
• Forest
• NGOs
• Community members
NationalProvincialRegional
First Responders
Vulnerable Districts and
Communities
istricts

19. • Pakistan dam’s water storage capacity is much less than the
neighboring countries like India. Therefore it is the need of the
hour to built large and small dames in catchments areas
especially the rainfall water during monsoon period.
• Manage the floods and storage the water.
• The stored water will protect food security especially fulfill the
water requirements of crops during drought period in the
country.