*3.3.2. District Sujawal*

As a result of inadequate sanitation and health facilities, most residents are exposed to diarrhea, fever, and flu. The daily sustenance of residents is on fish and vegetables that are purchased from Keti Bandar town due to unavailability of local grocery shops in the village.

For communication, most households rely on radio signals and cellular phones. However, these villagers are not very fond of listening to the news broadcast by radio. They prefer watching television using solar panels/generator and even this mode is not used for watching televised news on popular channels. Televisions in these households are used as a mode of entertainment to watch movies using solar batteries and generators as power source (**Figure 9**).

DRR training for emergencies has been provided by WWF‐Pakistan to communities of Dilli Sholani village (Khobar Creek). Villagers were glad to receive the training and appreciated the initiatives taken by the local NGOs but mentioned the inconsistency and follow‐up of such

Further information of the surveyed villages is given in **Tables 1** and **2**.

**Table 1.** Communities' structure‐related data nontrivial to surroundings.

activities.

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Previously, Sujawal was an old Taluka (Tehsil) of Thatta district, Sindh, Pakistan. In 2013, the Government of Sindh granted Sujawal, the status of a district. It is located at about 20 km west of Thatta on the road from Badin to Karachi. Sujawal is an agricultural area with a few industries. Its residents are diverse in ethnicity and religion.

The following two communities were selected from Sujawal district: (a) Haji Yousuf Goth and (b) Rohro Creek, Misri Jatt Village.

In the surveyed villages, there are no TV sets, radio sets, and 2–3 mobile phone sets per household are available. Early warning signals are usually broadcasted and received on radio sets (two of which were provided by WWF‐Pakistan and two by National Rural Support Programme).

**Figure 10.** Women collecting partly sweat water from the creek for drinking and household purposes at Rohro Creek near Kharochhan city

The primary occupation in the region is fishing. Residents in Yousuf Goth rely on a big pond for drinking water that is filled from the Indus River during the period of June–July and for next 4–5 months whereas in Rohro creek 8 hand pumps have been installed by WWF‐Pakistan in 2014 making access to clean water easy for the villagers (**Figure 10**).

Rohro creek has a relatively high literacy rate of 30% of the population, while in Yousuf Goth five persons can read and write among 180 households. Training by WWF‐Pakistan led a few families in Rohro Creek to reduce their risk of flooding by elevating their homes.

Detailed information of the surveyed villages is tabulated in **Tables 1** and **2**.
