Nasirabad Residents Queue for 400 Ice Blocks Daily as Heat Nears 50C and Power Lasts 3 Hours
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Updated · The Guardian · Aug 24
Nasirabad Residents Queue for 400 Ice Blocks Daily as Heat Nears 50C and Power Lasts 3 Hours
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 24
Summary
By 8 a.m., Nasirabad residents have often exhausted the town’s 400 overnight ice blocks, making the daily queue the main way many families keep drinking water cool.
Temperatures near Turbat were forecast to reach 46C-50C, while residents say electricity comes for only about three hours a day and is often too weak to run fridges reliably.
40-rupee pieces of ice can be resold for 80 rupees after the factory runs out, while poorer households borrow neighbors’ solar-powered refrigerators or sleep outside because they cannot afford panels, batteries or ice.
Pakistan ranked 147th in the 2024 Notre Dame adaptation index, and residents say national and district heatwave plans have brought little visible protection on the ground.